Why did the chicken cross the road?

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Chicken-based answers:

• to talk to the hen
• trynna find somewhere to lay the egg
• on its way to KFC
• to run away from the slaughter house and pursue its dreams
• the road was built over its habitat

Other answers:

• good exercise! / #cardio
• to meet his friend
• to learn C++
• because roads exist
• they were based
• because it was there
• to get to the McDonald's on the other side
• for fun
• to obtain a sense of morality
• I don't know

And of course there were 10 responses "to get to the other side."

This post's theme word is chevachee (n), "an expedition, raid, or campaign." The chicken chevashee descended in a flurry of feathers and surprise.

What is your quest?

New semester, new students. In response to the prompt "What is your quest?" they said

• to seek the Holy Grail (most popular response, 5)
• pass this class / to complete all my assignments / master C++ / achieve all the knowledge
• find riches / find El Dorado
• vengeance
• sleep (x3)
• to have a good day / be happy / live my best life
• Je veux apprendre le français.
• to follow that star
• survive
• self-actualization

This is a good variety of goals and I'm glad the students are thinking at such a wide range of timescales and achievement levels. Hopefully everyone got good sleep over the weekend and is ready to jump into some math tomorrow.

This post's theme word is obtrude (v), "to impose one's ideas/opinions", or "to thrust forward or intrude." The process of teaching is one of a series of obtruding lectures and enticing examples.