The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy takes us on a wild ride of adventure, discovery, and self-reflection. From the first pages, it is apparent that this is no ordinary book. This is a genuine guide, a handbook of sorts with advice from sage travelers from all over the universe. With towel in hand, we are given insight on living the vagabond life of a hitchhiker, living at the mercy of the goodwill of others, or their ships.
Arthur Dent was the average Joe until Ford Prefect saves his bacon. Suddenly he is a universal traveler on the adventure of a lifetime. He embraces it after some initial denial; he really doesn’t have much choice. He meets his first aliens and survives. He gets blasted into outer space and survives. On the Heart of Gold, he meets Zaphod Beeblebrox and instantly becomes an explorer of the unknown. After his mind is blown by a planet that manufactures planets, he concedes to the lifestyle of a hitchhiker taking life as it comes.
I feel a lot like Arthur Dent. My Ford Prefect is a petite woman dressed in vivid colors sporting a pixie haircut and a smile. She started by handing me a towel and telling me not to panic. I have taken her words to heart as I have gone on adventures and quests in Multimedia Communication and have survived. I have learned so much more than I thought I could and survived. In the classroom, I have had my mind blown and have conceded to the life of a student.
All silliness aside, Multimedia Communication is a real-life adventure in which we get to make decisions about our future and that of those we will be creating for. Having a guide to help us through this course has been instrumental to my success and I feel like I will be able to use this knowledge to create a niche for myself in this universe.
I said before that I felt like Douglas Adams was either a prophet or a time traveler. If he was neither, I was a man on top of technology with his finger on the pulse of the future. His predictions have been accurate to the nth detail. His is a genius that the passage of time has made immortal.