Hurray for modern technology!

Often, I forgot how new technology is. Just the other day, my sister was talking about sending an email to a missionary in Brazil, and how it seemed like even that went too slow. Then my dad started talking about his mission to the Philippines and how they didn't even have email; he said that the fastest form of written communication was probably telegrams! That got me thinking: there are so many different forms of technology that I take for granted, especially in education. For example, this is what letters, schoolwork, and records would have looked like when BYU was founded:

There were no emails, computers, or graphing calculators in the early years of this school. There wasn't this:

Or this:

Or this:

Or this:

There weren't scantrons or online tests or Top Hat Monacle. There was no such thing as a blog. To look up what was in the library, you actually had to be IN the library! It's amazing how far technology has come, and what a major role it's taken in education. I take all of these resources for granted, because I use them on a daily basis as part of my schoolwork. Sometimes I wonder how people used to learn, because all of these things are such an integral part of MY learning. But you know what? Even with all of the changes in technology and the differences in how we learn and are taught, we are doing the same thing those early students of BYU were: trying to learn about the world around us. Even though this university has changed a lot, the mission is still the same.We are still "enter[ing] to learn" so that we may "go forth to serve." That's pretty cool.