Internet failure boosts Flinders Uni student productivity.

A recent failure of the university network today has had a dramatic and sudden affect on the productivity of students. Faced with the prospect of a lack of Google, Youtube Myspace and Freindster students suddenly found themselves with nothing to do except their work.

Flinders uni social sciences student, Melanie said, “I was sitting in the Flinders University Library When it first went down, I wasn’t sure what to do. I was midway through a comment to a friend I had just made on Myspace when it happened. For the first few minutes I was in shock,, I just had to tell my new friend how great their pimped up page was and post a bulletin to tell my 349 close and personal friends about how awesome my weekend is going to be. Then I suddenly realised that I had other things that I could do, like my assignment that is due tomorrow, I was sceptical at first but after trying for a few minutes I totally forgot about Myspace and actually manage to finish the assignment.”

Experts estimate that in the brief 15 minutes that the network was down more work was completed on campus than in the preceding week. University lecturers are astounded by the positive results of the outage and are calling on the university IT department to institute a regular switching off of the university network to encourage students to actually complete work within deadlines.