What is your personal motto?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is your personal motto?

This year had a different tone than last year.

The positive:

• be happy
• don't give up
• You can do it.

The cultural references:

• Hakuna matata
• deus vult
• That's my secret, I'm always dancing.
• age quod agis
• just keep swimming
• You do you.

Those aiming for moderation:

• no worries
• it's gonna be okay
• whatevs
• Everything is okay.
• #flawless
• Learn. Think. Create. 
• while (alive) { live() }

The climbing-based mottos for climbers who climb enough to justify a climbing-based personal motto, which to my astonishment is a set containing more than one student:

• More chalk
• Always heel hook

The unfortunate: "sleep deprived since 2014!"

The decidedly pessimistic note goes to "Never address your problems," and the could-go-either-way pin goes to "Don't care unless it helps you."

The Non-Sequit-Award is tied between "look at dogs a bunch" and simply "bird". (Is "bird" a verb now? What are these youths doing with language nowadays? *shakes fist at sky, mumbles to self*)

This post's theme word is bovarism (n), "a romanticized, unrealistic view of oneself." My motto: be the bovarism I think I am already!