WHAT IS THE GREATEST SPORT?

Is it basketball, surfing, soccer, or baseball? Football, maybe? Or is it something else? You tell me: which sport is, by your standards, the best?

THIS PAINTING REMINDS ME OF...

On the right is the Goya painting. I won't tell you the title since that might prejudice your remarks. No, it's not called "Dr. Schmoll grades his students harshly."

...and the painting is titled, "Saturn Devours his Son."

Can you think of alternate titles?

FOR WHOM WILL THE BELLS TOLL IN NOVEMBER?

Okay, you do not have to say which candidate you'll support, since that would be too personal, right? Maybe not. Like everything on this blog, it's up to you what you say here, but you should have some space to talk politics if you'd like. So who do you favor, the man on the left or the man onthe right?

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS?

What do you make of all this economic trouble? Banks melting down, stocks falling like rocks in pond. Does it worry you? Do you think it'll impact your job choices when you graduate in four years?

Do pets play?

Ok, so this is a silly one, but I have a friend who teaches at another college who says that cats don't play. What he means is that when we pull a string for them or something like that, cats don't know they are playing..for them it's practice for the wild. Play is something that we have ascribed to their actions. We think, oh how cute, little Mittens is playing. But it could be our own assigning of human characteristics to the little beasties. What do you think? Do our pets really play?

Baby Carriage in Chechnya

Isn't this picture odd? Does it seem sad to you? Desperate? Why would a woman be pushing a baby carriage full of loaves of bread?

ENGLISH 100 SECTION 2

Greetings, you brilliant writers! This is obviously a great section, even if it is bursting with students. That's a good thing though, right? From what I see so far, there are some magnetic, rambunctious, crazy, lovely, elegant, and ambiguous folks in this class.
Post any questions of thoughts about the class here.

IDEAL EDUCATION

If you could design your education in exactly the way you want, how would you do that? Would you continue our idea of Gen Ed, of a bunch of general classes that make you a well-rounded person? Does it work? Or would you begin your college career in your major, taking only those courses that will help to make you an expert in the field of your choice?
I've thought about redesigning an elementary school so that the kindergarten teacher travels with the students to first, then second, and so on, all the way through 8th grade. I guess the only problem is if your kindergarten teacher stinks then your whole education is going to be ruined, right? But we would put controls in for that. If the teacher stinks, FIRE THE TEACHER. Hmm, novel idea, right? How would you redesign your education?

ENGLISH 100 SECTION 10

This part of the blog will allow you to expound on the reasons that this section is so great. Judging by what you guys wrote today about that group of men working in 1932 on the beam above New York City, you are some pretty fabulous writers. Furthermore, your grasp of the naming exercise was excellent--from that exercise I gather that this course has vegetarians shortcakes, brilliance, magnificence, naughtiness, and other wonderfully original characterstics.
WELCOME TO ENGLISH 100!