The Internet and me

I am a UNC student and I have recently written a story for my advanced news and feature writing class. My profile story was about the possibility of Internet addiction in college students. I focused my story on two actors and an expert. The actors are roommates and were Andy Freas and Seth Bovari. The expert was Chris Leck, a counselor from Colorado State University.
After having time to reflect about the story I couldn’t help but notice traits of Internet addiction that paralleled some of my own. From the research I conducted I learned the best way for someone to identify an addiction they may have. The other hardest part was finding a knowledgeable expert. The first I originally started with gave me very vague and boring answers. So, after researching I was able to find Leck and he turned out to be a great expert for the story.

The topic itself was far more interesting than my concerns and I was able to power through. The easiest thing about this story was actually becoming excited to research it. I often find myself bored with most papers but this I really enjoyed doing. The most significant thing I learned writing this story was how to identify an addiction. When something is cutting into time you rather be doing or need to be doing something else, you may have an addiction.
This story like all those before it has benefited my writing skills. I’m a little better with each paper I write. I have learned I need to check, recheck and check one last time before I turn in any paper. If I don’t have the time to set it down and walk away I seem to miss a lot of mistakes. If however, I do walk away and then come back it is as though I have a new set of eyes.
As far as excelling in this paper and needing improvement I could tell you there were both. As I stated before I just need to remember to block out enough time to write, walk away and then edit. What I did great on was the research. I feel I was able to get a bunch of information and have it sound very good in the story. Use the 410 Forum link to read the story.