Sociology is such a silly class. Basically, everything we talk about in there is common sense, save for some random statistics thrown in to give you some incentive to do some studying. Friday is article sharing day. This is essentially a waste of up to 35 minutes a day. Everyone brings in an article from the newspaper (newspaper articles are "strongly preferred" over internet articles) and they then write a one page summary/description of the social problem(s) in the article. They are worth 10 points a piece, but you only get the full ten points if you share the article with the class, otherwise you get five. To verify that you shared your article and to ensure that you get your full ten points, along with marking your attendance, a sheet is passed around the room in which everyone signs in and you place a check mark next to your name if you shared your article. What's funny to me is that everyone has only ever used a check mark to verify their article being shared. I have never, not once, seen any 'X's', five-pointed stars, dashes, dots, nor any other signifying marks. Only check marks. I'd say about 60 - 70% of the class shares their article each time. This makes it 17.5 students sharing their article everyday, on average. So there's a good amount of check marks on the sheet. I imagine she cannot accurately remember everyone that shares their article on a given day. Sometimes I make a check mark after my name even if I didn't share my article. Actually, I've only not done that once, and that was, I think, the first Friday where we did the sharing. But I do sometimes occasionally share, just to trick her slightly more. I throw my mad ninja-like mind skills at her and she cannot detect the clever system I've adopted. But wait! I think that maybe, at the beginning of the semester, she could not figure out who shared their articles accurately to determine if a student really merited the check mark, but later caught on to the likely pattern of the same students always being the ones sharing their articles. Could that be possible? I've never really kept track myself if it is, indeed, always the same students sharing their articles, but could she? Even now I cannot recall the exact students that share their articles each time. I can think of a few, but definitely not them all. There's some fucking stupid people in the class. I'd say about 80+% of the class is fucking stupid, or at least slightly below average in intelligence. Ha! I doubt myself too much! That 60-year-old balding woman--she can't match my cognitive finesse! "The student said they heard, 'Don't take any classes there. That is totally not a safe town to be in.'" "Yeah," a student replied. "Some woman came in to Subway where I work to ask if we had cameras outside the building. Her son got mugged in our parking lot last night." "Oh no!" the teacher replied. "That is a terrible coincidence." A few mumbled giggles. "This is really not a scary place to live class, is it?" It was a question that everyone took as rhetorical but I think she may have actually been expecting someone to confirm that this was, in fact, a very nice place to live. There was a long, draw-out pause. "So," another student finally asked, "does Subway have cameras in their parking lot?" "No," the first student replied. "Well, I guess now we know where to do all our mugging," said a young man with a Monster Energy Drink in front of him. [I increased my font size because when I sit sometimes I have to lean forward to see my font because my eyes are not apparently 20/20 but slightly worse. Something like 20/25 or 20/30. Anyway, it's real fucking annoying, hence the change.]