Is UGA Responsible for Students being Hyper-Exposed to Advertisements?
As my senior year at UGA begins, I look back on my time as a freshman in the dorms and think about all of the cool "firsts" that I was able to experience. My first roommate, my first home away from home, and my first mailbox. Getting my own mail was something I was oddly excited for. I thought there was something meaningful about receiving stuff exclusively with your name on it. However, after the first week or so I started to realize that most of the content being delivered to our mailboxes were advertisements. Not the kind that has your name on it because you were a frequent customer, but the kind that is mass sent out and placed in everyone’s mailbox. The quantity of advertisements received was so large that if you didn’t clear your mailbox out every other day you would end up with an overflowed mailbox. This was the first occurrence of what I believe to be a problem that is unique to college students. As freshmen, we had no control over who was able to send us ...