Don't Disappoint Me Again, Gray Lady, Or There Will Be Another Post And Nobody Wants That

      Since I obviously don't often read a physical newspaper, I need some sort of method to attack The New York Times app on my iPhone. I usually hit up Most Emailed, then Opinions, and then Book Reviews.       
      The thinking behind my interest in Most Emailed is partly because if everyone's emailing these pieces around, there must be something good about them but also because it provides good mix of arts pieces, human interest pieces, and actual news pieces.      
      With all of that said, some people email around some really dumb articles. A few weeks ago, I woke up at 3 in the morning because of a neighboring party so I did what every college freshman does when she can't sleep: I read The Times on my iPhone.
      The article I chose to read was one on the Most Emailed list and it was called  "Technology and the College Generation." You can imagine why I chose this article. 
      But I regret that. Because this article was quite possibly the dumbest display of journalism I have seen in the last five years, and I worked for my high school newspaper. 
      Why, you may ask?
      I'll begin with the articles thesis: College students do not check their email enough. Some don't even know they have a student email! Oh my! Therefore professors have trouble communicating with their students about assignments and exams. Oh dear! 
      I'm serious. That was the article. No joke. I have numerous problems with this:

1. I don't actually believe that's a problem. I check my email every twenty minutes. Yes, that might seem extreme, but I highly doubt people that “Some of them didn’t even seem to know they had a college e-mail account,” as Dr. May is quoted as saying in the article.
2. Is this really a top priority of college administrations? What about sexual assault that runs rampant on college campuses? Or binge drinking? 
3. The solution to this "problem" seems simple: Tell students they do in fact have a student email and that they need to actually check it. That may help. 

I think the writer didn't have a story and made this one up as some sort of joke. Funny. The Gray Lady doesn't often disappoint me but when she does it hits me extra hard. Next time, I expect better reporting and journalism from the best news publication around.