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Eve Rosenblum | Let It Get Awkward: The Case for Putting Down Our Phones

(07/27/22 6:14pm)

At a summer camp in the suburbs of St. Louis, children are not allowed to have their phones. Scattered across the playground, they trade Pokémon cards and make up dual-syllable languages. One group, squeezed around one tower, plays Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza. Another makes rainbow looms. As much as I do not understand “me-me,” retreat costs, or the camp-wide popularity of Frozen 2, I communicate with these children comfortably. 


Eve Rosenblum | The Optimization Age

(06/15/22 2:19pm)

Would you prefer a loud or quiet dorm? What are your pet peeves? How do you feel about guests? Do you have a preferred room temperature? What is the general cleanliness of your room? You agonize over what your favorite TV show says about you or how to articulate your political ideology as honestly — yet sympathetically — as possible. Maybe you decide that translating yourself into roughly 24 categories is impossible. Every day, a post from @upenn2026.info shows up in your Instagram feed, and you swipe through it analyzing, wondering, "could this be my roommate?"