I was sitting quitely waiting for my Wednesday morning class to start. I was pretending to read my book, but really I was listening to these three girls have a conversation (the eavesdropping was so not all my fault cause they were really loud). Listening to their conversation I discovered that: Thesis Girl has to present her thesis (hence the name) to a big group of people soon, Waitress Girl is in her late 20s because she takes classes while she waitresses, and that Research girl has a presentation to do. I also discovered that all three of them have been living under some internet rock, probably the same rock Mike K has been living under except his has more bingo.
Here is the conversation that ensued:
Research Girl: I was researching this presentation and the librarian told me to put addition signs in when I search for things
Thesis Girl: Really? Does that help?
Research Girl: Yeah! Cause it means it looks up the one word plus the other word.
Waitress Girl: Wow! That's so neat! I'll use that
Research Girl: Yeah it really helps to narrow stuff down.
At this point my brain was melting. How have these people survived to third year university, how has Thesis Girl managed to prepare a thesis, without being able to Google properly??? Waitress Girl is a very intelligent girl, AND she's hip! Hip people!!! She should be all up on the Google Skillz.
I came home from class and proceded to tell people on my floor this story. I was then shocked to discover that THEY HAD NO IDEA EITHER!!!! I felt like I was in some sort of twighlight zone where it turns out everyone is illiterate but you.
Previously I had always thought that I was a decent Google lookerupper. Turns out I'm awesome, way abover average, I'm going to go as far as saying that my skillz are superb.
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I'm always shocked when I learn what people can't do. The place I volunteer is always amazed at the speed at which I work...which is really me not trying too hard. Listening to random conversations can be fun though...even if painful. They always make for good stories.
it's really hard when you're suddenly on the other side. i work with all these people who know so much about ms office, so now i'm the one learning all the new keyboard shortcuts.
At least the shortcuts are useful and once you know them you will wonder how you even functioned without them.
perhaps Christine could be called "nerdy girl" for knowing this.
I knew about """ marks, but not the "+" mark for google searching.
Maybe I'm google old school.
But then again I VOIP and you don't. Does that make me new old school?
I am so confused!
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