Exciting! Secret! Thoughts!

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: people like to talk about themselves. (Have I ever said that before? possibly no, but I’m saying now and I am tempted to say it in capital letters).

Therefore, to avoid boring the students in class as we, with worry in our eyes and tremors in our hearts discussed last class, (I include myself in the we, although I didn’t vocalize my shared terror, I thought I would articulate it here, in the privacy of my world-accessible blog) it seems to me that if they are able to write about themselves that they would necessarily be fascinated.

Therefore, as I am designing my syllabus, I am keeping this idea in mind. I like the assignment we came up with in class, but what if the famous person discussed isn’t Richard Nixon or some such admirable and trustworthy figure, but the student. That’s right, Mr. or Ms. Topdog of the dorm, ipod listenin’, bookstore shoppin’, cheap beer drinking freshman.

Therefore, let us say I take the format of the assignment developed in class. But the peron picked is Sally or Fredrick and the hidden obsession is their own. Followed of course by associative research, revision into different media and analysis…yes…

Therefore: How could that be boring? This could potentially shift the boredom to the teacher in the case that the student’s hidden obsession is radically boring. I would be an example of this. I’m going to talk about myself now,

Therefore, proving my intial statement, which I will rearticulate (as to prove the other assertion, that I say it often) PEOPLE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THEMSELVES. I disclose my secret obsession (you guys can keep a secret right?) I like to crochet and knit. I pillage the library for books of patterns, I spend hours mesmerized by this craft. I made afghans for everyone in my family two christmases ago. I am (terrible, terrible pun coming up which anyone who crochets will get) hooked.

I was so NOT bored writing that. If I bored you, I apologize.