It’s mid-September, and your room is set up at last. Your chair is here, your toes are toasty in the A.M. thanks to a whimsically shagged carpet you bought at Wal-Mart, your creamy walls glow with the efflorescence of a thousand late nineteenth-century French advertisements purchased from the student poster agency.

Princeton’s Blackboard website is not just a useful academic tool; it’s also a means of surveillance.

You can type in any search query, and according to the Googlism website, “find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything.”