Today in class we started mentally mapping out the continents and our route to school. I think I was actually pretty good at doing both. It's funny because our parents get on us in the car when they think our heads are drilled to our phones. They think our lives revolve around them. They don't. Phones have made us smarter human beings as a whole. We should actually know more than older generations because we are fortunate enough to have the technology we have to answer basically any question we need to know. Technology makes us smarter, it's not distracting us from the world, it's teaching us. I also believe that technology helps us with photo graphic memory. That's why I was able to mentally draw our continents and routes. I'm very bad at geography. From my old school, we had had no studies of geography. Like barely. So I'm excited to further my knowledge in this class, and learn more on the topic.

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