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College Students Turn Away From Landlines
prostoalex writes "You're as likely to find a landline in a college dorm as you're an old typewriter, according to this Washington Post article on MSNBC. While roughly 30% of college students had a cell phone 5 years ago, more than 90% have them today, resulting in student directories including out-of-state numbers instead of 4-digit extensions. More trivia on college students: 90% own a PC, 65% have broadband, 62% own a stereo system, 74% have a DVD player, 55% have a gaming system. What the Washington Post article also hints at, is possible tuition hikes due to the landlines dropped so quickly. "Six or seven years ago, telephones on campus were a cash cow," said Glenn Gaslin of Morrisville State College in New York."
Thats interesting. I have not met one person here (MIT) who does not own at least two PCs. I've also not met anyone here who runs Windows.
Oh, one of my professors does it much differently...
... and the superlocrian scale here ... ...
Prof:
---BRRRRRRIIING---
[Amanda looks up all embarassed]
[Prof walks over to Amanda, picks up the cell phone from next to her handbag.]
Prof: Yo.
Phone:
Prof: What you want?
Phone:
Prof: Yeah! This is Horatio. What you want with my woman?
[the other end hangs up]
It never fails to amuse... (funny how some students just don't learn).
Engineers also speak PDE, only in a different dialect.