On the one hand, it’s probably a good thing that I attended college in the (dark, prehistoric) days before cable TV and the Internets. With fewer shiny objects to distract me, it was easier for me to get most of my course work done in a timely fashion. But when I see videos like this, it makes me wish people did stuff like it back then, because it would have been fun to be a part of.
Of course, Journey songs hadn’t sufficiently aged by then to be considered retroactively cool, so we would have had to pick different music. I can live with that. Also, we didn’t have “Glee” back then, but I think we could have worked around that. I’m pretty sure parachute pants would have been involved, though, so maybe it’s all for the best.
I keep thinking that the three years I spent on Kwajalein would have been greatly improved had there been an Internet. Those boring swing shifts would have been spent differently, although had there been blogs I’d never have read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” in a single week of worknights.
Linkmeister, Shirer’s masterpiece is one of those books you just can’t put down — no matter how many blogs were out there…. It was absolutely riveting.