Edmundson begins by introducing how the newest generation in his classes in 2008 never ceases to accept an offer until it is absolutely necessary to turn the opportunity down. The students constantly feel obligated to make their day eventful and Edmundson feels absolutely repulsed by the thought of that, what ever happened to reading a book in bed on a Saturday? Edmundson argues, “They live to multiple possibilities” (Edmundson) with an intense negative tone though. ‘Multiplying possibilities’ sounds remarkable, as if students are working to the best of their ability with the resources they can utilize, but Edmundson believes students are increasing their opportunities so much that they do not even have any opportunity to become successful. If scholars constantly look for greater options, they will not succeed in any of them. Referring back to his article written a few years prior to “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students” , Mark Edmundson used to believe students were too entranced with television and focusing in on one thing, the times have changed quickly though. Edmundson currently thinks the opposite, with use of the internet students can literally do up to 20 things at once and visit multiple places while never leaving their desks! Simultaneously adolescences will text, skype, type an essay, have one head phone in with music playing, with Twitter, Facebook, and their emails all up on separate tabs, while the game is playing on the television in the background and Edmundson sees all these activities going as a monstrosity. Nothing productive can actually occur if ten or more events are surrounding the student, Edmundson believes. Laptops seem like one of the greatest inventions when it comes to taking notes in college courses, the student is able to take notes quickly and affectively, while having the professor’s power point on their laptop and allowing them to look up a word here and there too, or that’s what Edmundson thought at least, until one day he walked to the front of the room and glanced over the should of a student with a Shakira YouTube video up and his email front and center. Once understanding that every student frantically typing during his lectures easily could be instant messaging his friends, Edmundson made the realization “an internet-linked laptop, one may safely say, is not a life thickener” (Edmundson). Young adults in college have an abundant of ideas going through their mind and the internet in front of them makes it difficult to focus on the required material. Even the student’s courses overwhelm the average adult such as Edmundson, just like he explains “their classes are laser and light shows, fast-moving productions that mime the colors and sound and above all the velocity of the laptop” (Edmundson). The presentations bring life to the classroom but maybe a little too much, Edmundson considers these fast and furious explosions of “learning” to distract the students more than teach them. No-one can focus on notes if every slide is a new colour with a new spinning propeller effect on every word flashed throughout the demonstration. Nothing is wrong with a basic and informative lesson on a white board or a simple slide show with nothing but the necessary material dispersed within it, according to Edmundson. The very second young adults get released from their Vegas-style classes they rip out their phones as if they just missed the most important fifty minutes of their lives and the only way to get it back is by reading through their entire feed of Twitter within two minutes of being out of class. Edmundson compares the students phones as a drug when he states, “they’ve been off unwired, off the drug, for more than an hour, and they need a fix” (Edmundson) and sometimes as a student I feel addicted too and not being able to use my phone for a modest fifty minutes, feels like I have been in social media rehab. Sadly most college students feel this way too and Edmundson probably is sickened by that. Even the sports in the current generation are intense and fast moving. The new thing is X-games, which involves speed, high jumping, dangerous sports such as snowboarding, surfing, and skating, most of which end in injury more often than not unfortunately. People nowawdays are mezormized by these “living on the edge” types of sports. Nothing in this age group is slow, safe, or sane. The overwhelming life-style doesn’t stop at school and sports though, kids do not even know what an intimate relationship from what Mark Edmundson implies in his, “Dwelling in Possibilities” article. Nobody actually looks for a good relationship these days, they look for a hook up, “what exactly does it mean to hook up?” Edmundson explains, “It means managing to have good sex without activating all the strong feelings that sex usually brings,” (Edmundson) and to a man from the 1960’s, like Edmundson, the thought of a hook up must sound degrading and disgusting. He even brings this unconceivable thought of sex without the feelings back to the idea of the internet as he illustrates, “it’s sex that lets you keep sliding over surfaces, moving from partner to partner as smoothly as you move from site to site on the laptop” (Edmundson), students live every aspect of their lives the same: reckless, overpowering, meaninglessly and eventually they are going to break. The current generation moves so quickly, class after class, sex after sex and drug after drug Edmundson believes, “when my students crash on their own, they crash like helicopter straight out of the sky” (Edmundson), it not like a hot air balloon slowing dropping or an airplane landing calmly at an angle, it is a straight free fall out of the sky. Young adults feel obligated to please everyone: teachers, parents, friends, and coaches all telling them what to do and where to go constantly causes the student to shatter. It’s nearly impossible to attend the party, write the essays, work hard at practice, get enough sleep, and study for the tests all in the same weekend yet students attempt to every weekend, causing them to crash, like Edmundson predicts, as hard as a helicopter. Edmundson directs the article, “Dwelling in Possibilities” to his fellow professors and educators and effectively proves his point of students being too overwhelmed and focusing too much on multiplying their opportunities by using examples, his personal experiences and comparisons to literature other teachers should be well acquainted with.