macabre_trout t1_j0rjl6i wrote on December 18, 2022 at 9:46 PM

Reading about this case, I thank God that my college study abroad trip was in 2001 when no one in my family had cell phones. I was gone for two months and I think I called my family a total of three times. 😄

BarracudaLower4211 t1_j0s1bbu wrote on December 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM

Ditto. I skipped my last 4 weeks of immersion classes and rode the train for a month. It was 12 credits of independent study. I submitted no documentation I actually attended class and was never asked. Got a 4.0

washington_jefferson t1_j0sl5xm wrote on December 19, 2022 at 2:27 AM

That's pretty wild. I had a cell phone in 1995 when I was 15. I think I only knew a couple of people who didn't have cell phones when I went to college in 1998. That said, when I lived and/or worked in Germany in the early 2000's, I'd have to use my German cell phone to call my parents on their land line. US rates were super high on cell phones back then for overseas calls.