The goal of the class, called "Wasting time on the Internet," is to take the experience of tweeting, online chatting and watching silly YouTube videos and turn it into a work of literature.

Goldsmith — to his students, Kenny — explained his class in the New Yorker in November 2014, expressing his "frustration with reading endless indictments of the Web for making us dumber." “Everybody ...

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And so, in what will hopefully be my final semester of college, I find myself asking questions that surely all seniors must ask themselves. “What will I do with myself?” “Where will I go?” “Am I going ...

The next time someone tells you you’re wasting too much time on the Internet, tell them you’re contributing to the greatest poem ever written. That’s how poet and University of Pennsylvania ...

That’s my personal preference. But I can easily see how many students on campus don’t want to go to class or aren’t interested in sitting through a power lecture on a beautiful 70 degree day. If they ...

DR. WALLACE: I'm a pretty good student overall, and I'm in my sophomore year of high school. One of my classes is far below my ability. This particular teacher is not very effective, doesn't push ...

Julia Mickenberg feels like she should have been working on her dissertation. “Progress,” she said. “That’s what counts. Progress.” She thought she would be making progress as an instructor today, ...

As a recent Instagram post by The School Of Life explained, we should actually embrace wasting more time, despite all the external signals encouraging us to hustle. “We are encouraged to be hard ...