"To be a good business, people should be able to reach me from nine to five," he says, adding that having the cell phone allows him to skirt Harvard regulations that prohibit the use of College phone lines for business purposes.
For Healer, who says she spends a lot of time in the car driving to and from her job teaching martial arts, having a cell phone is a matter of safety and convenience.
She says she often checks her voice mail on the phone while driving or walking between commitments.
"It's a really wonderful tool for multi-tasking," Healer says.
But for Edwina Tom '02, having a cell phone has been a convenient way to appease a somewhat overbearing mother.
Tom says she knew her mother would not allow her to go on a trip to New York City during intersession last year.
So she opted not to tell her mother--relying on the fact that she would be reachable just as easily in New York as in Boston with her cell phone.
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