Hello World

Welcome to my blog, "Must...Pay...Attention...!" Within this space, I aim to chronicle what happens when the attention span of a twenty-something college student runs out during class.

Attention spans are reducing over time, and with the evolution of the internet in recent decades, the attention span of my generation is shorter than any of those before it. A 2008 study performed by British sociologist David Moxon indicates that the average human attention span is 5 minutes and 7 seconds, which has decreased from the nearly 12 minute attention span of humans 10 years ago. Studies also show that the attention span for students in a 50 minute lecture tops out at around 18 minutes, before most students lose complete focus.

As a college student myself, I feel the pull of a short attention span every day. This usually results in countless doodles and drawings in my class notes. Some of them directly convey frustration with course material, or a distate for the professor, while others seem to have no connection at all to the material being presented at the time. My blog will focus on the products of this short attention span. I will display images and insights from my own notes, as well as those of close friends, and will encourage readers to send in their own doodles. Hopefully this blog will offer an insight into what happens in the mind of a college student when it wavers from its primary objective of paying attention in class and absorbing the lecture material being presented by the professor.