Finally moving on from dial-up

Throughout high school, I was used to having a slow Internet connection. It didn't phase me at all that I had to wait 3 minutes for a web site to come up because that was just the way dial-up is. However, when I got to Purdue and started using wireless my wait time decreased to just seconds for each new page to pop up.

Now when I go home I feel like I am disconnected from the world. (Thank the lord for my Crackberry!) In my first 3 years of college, I refused to get on the Internet at home because we still had dial-up thanks to our lovely tree line behind the house. We called EVERYBODY to try to get a faster Internet connection. EVERYBODY said no because of our tree line.

About a year and a half ago I asked my mom if we could get a wireless usb from Verizon that we could just plug into our computer and it would connect to the Internet and it would surely be faster than the ancient dial-up that was a complete waste of money. Of course, my mom said no when I asked, but about a month ago when my mom and sister were tired of using the slow computer they had the brilliant idea of getting the wireless usb from Verizon. They were so excited that they thought of it on their own until I burst out into a vocal flashback of me begging for this usb to give us the Internet.

I still don't use the computer at home because Verizon only allows 5GB of downloading and other things done on the Internet. I figured I'm on the computer enough at school to make up for the down time at home. I'll just stick to using the Crackberry for the small things like e-mail.