Since very little research has examined these issues, we felt that assessing the hypothesized relationships would make a nice contribution to the extant cell phone literature. We created a survey with the intent of administering it to 500 undergraduate students. The survey included a validated measure of anxiety, a validated measure of happiness (subjective well-being), a self-report measure of cell phone use which we had previously developed and published, and lastly a consent form which would give us permission to access participants' official academic records. This was necessary as participants' actual, cumulative grade point average (GPA) would be our measure of academic performance. After gaining approval from the university's Internal Review Board (IRB) as well as the university Registrar, we were ready to collect data. This was the tricky part. IRB approval required that we carefully explain to each participant how we would access their academic records and how we would keep that information confidential and anonymous. To do this, we needed help from faculty with no direct stake in the project. First, we identified a mix of large classes across campus likely to yield a final sample representative of the larger student body - that is to say, a sample with a wide array of majors and evenly distributed by class standing. Second, we contacted the professors for each class, explained the project and requested thirty minutes of their class time in order to administer the survey. This was a bit awkward since we had nothing to immediately offer in return, only a promise to repay the favor in the future. As it turned out, each of the professors we contacted was interested in the study and freely gave their class time. For this we are very thankful - there is a generous and supportive faculty here at Kent State University and we are privileged to be a part of it.