It's funny (and maybe a little sad) that we seem to have grown so reliant on the internet for all our needs. Specifically, in my case, the internet as it's offered through UB.
See, for the last near decade, I've been happily playing the role of career student, earning (by May '08) a trio of different degrees. For the first 7 years of that existence, I lived in on campus housing, contently using the internet as provided by UB, doing my last minute research without a care for the power of the databases provided to me.
Then reality struck this morning.
I was busily blogging when a question occurred to me. Just as I had done many times before, I set about to research the answer. I went over to heinonline.org which is a terrific resource for legal research as they put up PDFs of a large number of Law Journals.
To my horror, I couldn't log in.
What the heck happened?
What should I do?
Then it hit me. Hein's expensive. The University pays for it. This was the first time I had logged on from a non UB connected computer.
It may me sad.
But what it really did was drive home the reality that these fantastic resources that university students take for granted are not always readily available! Enjoy them while you have them and make the best of them!
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