Some of my toughest choices include cheering on the team or streaming ‘Orange is the New Black.’
Doria Leibowitz for FreshInkForTeens.com
Multitasking — no high school student can succeed without it. Studying for a Talmud test while eating lunch and doing your history homework, no problem. Preparing for the math quiz while davening Mincha — please, you were doing that in third grade. But the ultimate trick is what I do 10 times a year and more for playoff games (God willing): make productive use of my time while being the backup goalie on my yeshiva’s floor hockey team.
So as I stare down the court, listening to the squeaks of sneakers rubbing against the floor, I think about my choices: watch the game, cheer on the team like a good teammate should or go on my phone and contemplate whether or not the Wi-Fi is strong enough to allow me to write my history paper and stream “Orange is the New Black” at the same time. The decision is always tough, but ultimately I try to make the right choice and do all three, at the same time, of course. So while screaming and jumping up and down, I have one eye on my history textbook —reading about George Washington crossing some river in the freezing cold — and my other eye on my phone, while I try to hack into someone’s HBO GO account.
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