CivicsLab
Health Care Class | March 24, 2010
This morning I was late to a class where we are learning how to use Adobe After Effects. After sitting down, I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to catch up during class, so I signed on to twitter (shhh don’t tell). The first thing I saw was the White House’s tweet saying that they were about to live stream the President signing the health care bill. I looked around, realized the TA wouldn’t notice, muted the computer and clicked the link that the White House had sent out. There I sat for the next twenty minutes watching this historic moment live from a computer in class. “Who is the little kid standing next to Obama?”, I tweeted. A friend quickly tweeted back, “The little boy at the signing lost his mother to cancer I believe. She couldn’t afford health insurance and/or got denied”. It occurred to me that I witnessed history by clicking my mouse a couple of times.
Peace.
-Laura Staniland-
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