As the wireless internet of the Plus Berlin is shaky at best, a huge buzz topic around the hotel is wifi: who has it, who doesn’t have it, where is it the best, etc.

Because of this, many of us have gone to extraordinary measures in attempts to attain and sustain a connection to our precious internet. People have rebooted, reconnected, held their computers to the sky, waited, prayed, and performed ritual dances in search of the elusive connection.

Last night, I decided to try to reset my wireless connection by disabling and re-enabling my computers internal router, something which turned out to be a huge mistake.

Being the fool that I am, I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to re-enable said router. Until I could do so, I would be unable to connect to the internet with my computer at all. I exhausted every option for about 2 hours trying to get back internet; time I meant to spend on my essay due Wednesday.

By the end of the night, I had given up. I was coming to terms with the fact that I would be more disconnected with my home and loved ones than I had ever been and it was painful.

This made me realize a lot about our reliance on electronics, and our dependence on them for interpersonal relationships. I tried to take away from the situation as much as I could as I went to bed considering a life of disconnection.