As this sweltering summer gives way to fall, a fleet of American teens will be off to college in a few short weeks.
Alongside laundry bags, binders, dorm décor, bed sheets, that go-to shampoo, and perhaps a favorite comforter, the laptop computer is now just as much a staple as the paper planner of yesteryear.
They’re used for everything from typing up papers to accessing course assignments, doing research, posting to discussion forums, and, well, all of those other less collegiate things we do as social beings. Emailing friends, checking social media, shopping, and all that.
The problem is, the boundaries between those two worlds—the academic and the social—appear to be tragically thin when it comes to the sphere of a 12–15 inch screen….