Most of us can remember the days when we didn’t use e mail as an everyday vehicle for communication.Slowly but surely, it crept into 1 .E-mail is a 2 tool for college students at any level.It’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 3 at holidays.Most universities assign students an account upon entrance, 4 there is usually not even an option involved.
You can do everything from consulting on homework and projects, 5 classmates, family and friends, and getting daily news services to 6 you informed of world 7 .But, what are the 8 ?
E-mail can be e-jail.You might 9 hours writing and responding to e-mail 10 you should be busy with the books for an upcoming exam. 11 , you might be signed up for so many daily services, 12 horoscopes, news services, or personals, that your mailbox is so 13 “junk mail”, that finding the 14 e-mails through your box might take hours.
If you’re a student, 15 is precious.Create and organize your e-mail folders into important school-related mail, correspondence with friends and family, and a folder for jokes, horoscopes, and other news services. 16 put spend to the most important e-mails first and, 17 you have time, you can get to the others.
18 your friends from forwarding those tiresome joke lists, sex quizzes, and chain e-mails.The minute you 19 you’ve got one, delete it 20 so you won’t be tempted to read it.
Perhaps the most interesting person I have ever met in my life is an Italian professor of philosophy who teaches at the University of Pisa. 1 I last met this man eight years ago, I have not forgotten his 2 qualities.First of all, I respected his 3 to teaching.Because his lectures were always well-prepared and clearly delivered, students crowded into his classroom.His followers liked the fact that he 4 what he taught.Furthermore, he could be counted on to explain his ideas in an 5 way, introducing such aids to 6 as oil paintings, music, and guest lecturers.Once he 7 sang a song in class in order to make a point clear. 8 , I admired the fact that he would talk to students outside the classroom or talk with them 9 the telephone.Drinking coffee in the café, he would easily make friends with students.Sometimes he would 10 a student to a game of chess. 11 , he would join student groups to discuss a variety of 12 : agriculture, diving and mathematics and so on.Many young people visited him in his office for 13 on their studies; others came to his home for social evenings.Finally, I was 14 by his lively sense of humor.He believed that no lesson is a success 15 , during it, the students and the professor 16 at least one loud 17 .Through his sense of humor, he made learning more 18 and more lasting.If it is 19 that life makes a wise man smile and a foolish man cry, 20 my friend is indeed a wise man.