The Things I Google

Google is a life savor. Without google there is no way I would have passed high school, let alone get into a school like Fairfield. I googlethings everyday. My last five searches include:

• health articles (I find these really interesting)
• why don't some jews keep kosher (for my interview for religion) 
• convery 726 kJ to J (for my chem homework)
• what time does barone close (just wondering)
• Loyola University women's soccer (looking up Jess' stats)

I don't know what I would do without google, it provides information at the click of a button. Marion Wink says in the article The Things They Googled, "The things they googled were determined by forgetfulness, by need, by desire, by curiosity, and by the endless availability of information." We google things not because we need to know information, but because it is so easy to do. More than half the things I google are stupid things I don't need to know. I couldn't imagine living a life without google. What would we do to find information, look it up in a book?

Google is really helpful when it comes to my weekly Chemistry homework. Our homework is online, and is mostly common examples that are online, just with different numbers. I have figured out that if I google the first couple words of the problem, usually an example will come up with different numbers. This makes doing my homework so much easier, all I have to do is follow the example that I found though google, just putting in my own numbers. I save so much time by doing my homework this way. Rather than flipping though my notes and seeing what equations I need to use, I just google them. All the information is right in front of me, it makes doing homework so much more efficient.

My mom thinks she is a doctor because of google. Whenever any of my brothers or sisters are sick, she will google the symptoms and tell us what is wrong with us. It is so funny because we always joke that doctors don't know anything, they just google it (that's why they always walk in and out of the room). Obviously this is a joke, doctors are really smart. Its crazy to think that an normal person can find out what is wrong with them by googling it.

I don't think people appeciate how much google has improved our lives. Google has made it possible to keep up with fast paced life we all live in. Reading The Things They Googled by Marion Wink showed me how much Google has influenced my life. I now realize how much I use google, and how different my life would be without it.