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Lucky creative writing students in a University of Pennsylvania seminar will be able to earn academic credit for wasting time on the Internet next spring. The class, appropriately titled “Wasting Time on the Internet,” will require its students to spend the three-hour weekly sessions dividing their attention between the world of the Internet and the classroom. 明年春天，宾夕法尼亚大学研讨会上幸运的创意写作的学生可以从“浪费时间上网”上获得学分。这个取名为“浪费时间在网上”的班级要求，他们的学生花三个小时每周将注意力从班级里转到网络世界。 The instructor, Kenneth Goldsmith, tells The Washington Post that he will strictly enforce “a state of distraction” among the students — exactly the sort of thing he and virtually every other professor on Earth spends time trying to eliminate from their classes. 导师肯尼斯·戈德史密斯告诉《华盛顿邮报》，他会严格逼迫学生执行“分心的状态”——恰恰是那种地球上其他的教授告诫学生万万不可做的事情。 The purpose, Goldsmith says, is to have the students write something good at the end of the course, as a result of all that forced distraction. Goldsmith says he hopes the distraction will place his students “into a digital or electronic twilight,” similar to the state of consciousness between dreaming and waking that was so prized by the Surrealists. | 
