ROCKY HILL, Conn. -- Four Rocky Hill High School students were asked by Eyewitness News to go one week without sending text messages. Do you think they could do it?

Senior Karen Hursty said she sends hundreds of texts every day.

"The second the bell rings, everyone's checking their messages," she said.

She said she and fellow senior Ryan Driggs were voted Most Textually Active at Rocky Hill High School.

"To be honest, I only talk to my parents over the phone, really," Driggs said.

Along with juniors Pooja Shah and Evan Pelletier, Hursty and Driggs were challenged to stop texting for one week.

Along with helping their social life, the students insisted texting helped their studies. For example, they said they're able to text multiple people if they have questions about homework.

"It's truly amazing how they feel they can't live without these cell phones," Principal Mario Almeida said. "They actually believe this."

Hursty said she couldn't even make it past the first day of the challenge.

"I already texted, I'm not going to lie," she said. "I didn't realize it was starting Tuesday. Everyone was texting me. I was like, 'I can't do it,' so I texted everybody."

By the end of the week, Shah and Driggs said they were able to stay text-free by staying busy.

"I just hung out with friends," Shah said. "Um, I definitely got some more work done, even on a Saturday."

"It's a good thing baseball started, because that would occupy like three hours every afternoon for me," Driggs said.

Pelletier said he encountered a few hurdles early on in the challenge, but that he learned a valuable lesson.

"Constantly being texted by somebody is a little distracting when you're hanging out with somebody else," he said.

Hursty, who was only text-free for one day, said she thinks she's addicted.

"When my phone dies at work, I, like, start tapping things and hitting things," she said. "My fingers need to be doing something."

Dr. Robert Sahl, at the Institute of Living, said it's no surprise there is this attachment to texting, but that he hopes young students realize the world doesn't operate one text at a time.

"Part of the richness of our lives is the interchange with people, hearing their words, seeing faces, body expressions," he said. "It'll be interesting to see how it all works out."