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Do you use your phones on the field?

Tuesday 3rd April 2018. This time I went to the center in the evening. On my previous visits, I noticed that more people show up towards the end of the day, as they are completely done with their classes. This gave me a lot more to observe.


Continuing on with my previous theme about athletes and their cell phone usage, I saw another group of athletes, field hockey players this time all enter the center at the same time. They proceeded to do the same with as the football players yesterday. They signed in at a front desk, walked towards the back of the center, then sat down and immediately went on their phones. They continued on their phones and chatting with eachother, until one of them had a question that she needed a tutor for. A tutor then moved his belongings and sat with the hockey players in order to help the girl with her work. As soon as one of them started doing work, the others soon followed and within 10 minutes, all five of them were scribbling down in their notebooks, with not a cellphone in sight.

How strange, I thought? Seeing as these athletes work in teams a lot, it started to make sense to me why they were so easily influenced by eachother. Whilst I stopped observing this particular group of athletes, I would not have surprised me if shortly after, one of them got their cell phone out and the others did the same.


I additionally paid particular attention to a girl that needed help with financial accounting. She was working with a tutor individually and I overheard her saying that she was worried about her test that was coming up in a few days. We’ve all been there, or at least I have. Panicking about an upcoming exam, and try your best to cram in as much knowledge as possible in the time you have remaining. I have total respect for the girl though. She came to the tutoring center, alone, and not once was she on her phone. She gave her undivided attention to her work and managed to get a lot of it done.


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