There was another story about someone who had taken a big midterm exam, and felt like she'd failed. Because it was nearing drop date (the last day when you can drop a class without having it shown on your record), she decided to give up for the semester and submit the paperwork to drop the class without even picking up her graded exam. However, one of the other people in the fraternity was in her class, and picked up both exams, discovering that the person who had thought she was failing had actually gotten a high score. In order to prevent her friend from dropping the class unnecessarily, she ran around campus telling everyone else she met that they should pass the word along, forming a word-of-mouth tree to get a message through. Again, the current generation asks why she didn't just phone, text message, email, or IM the intended recipient, and can barely imagine a time when there was no easy way to reach someone when you didn't know where they were, and people didn't check their email even once a day because there was so little traffic.