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Sometime last week, Reuters published an article about American college students and their addiction to technology. At least I think it was last week, I’ve been on the Internet nearly constantly for over a year now, so I could be wrong.

The information I managed to copy and paste from the article, in between checking my Facebook account and watching “Cougar Town” on Hulu, explained that in a study the University of Michigan performed on 200 of its students, students showed withdrawal symptoms after a mere 24 hours without technology.

Now, I don’t know about the rest of you, but in between Skyping with my friends in Boston or texting my old high school classmates in New Orleans, I barely have time to sleep, much less attend class, do homework or socialize face to face with people in my dorm.

I consider it no less than a miracle when I actually show up to my economics class, which begins before the crack of noon.

The only way I can make myself sit through the lecture is by doodling (on my iPod touch, I don’t even own a notebook) or updating my Twitter feed, usually with something really witty like, “Sitting in econ, barely awake. ROTFL.”

But lately,  I have begun to notice a trend. More and more, my school life and my social life appear to be cutting into my technological life, and this cut needs stitches. To counter this, I, like many of my fellow rational and incredibly grounded college students, am considering dropping out of college.

Why, you may ask, would I throw away a nearly completed year of college for the Internet? Well, you wouldn’t ask that, because no self-respecting college student would.

I mean, the hallowed cave of wonders that is the Internet is the logical choice over a college degree or hopes of a job, which is why I am almost ready to call it quits. Well, that and my rapidly increasing online poker debt.

I leave you, University of Denver students, with a simple plea. Please, give into the technology addiction that is sweeping the nation.

Please, don’t stop sending hundreds of text messages, reading My Life is Average or watching videos on Funny or Die in favor of reading a book, studying for an exam or going to dinner with friends. Please, I could use the company.