If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

 I take attendance by having students answer a question. Previously 2017, 2019.

If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

There were some traditionalists:

• invisibility x7
• flying x3
• super speed x2
• telepathy
• read minds 
• invulnerability
• super saiyan

Many people want extra time:

• have 48 hours a day
• stop time
• no longer need to sleep
• not getting sleepy
• making [other student in class] on time
• instant transportation

Then there were people who imagined powers that help towards other goals:

• power to refill anything
• memory
• infinite memory
• infinite money

This post's theme word is macrosmatic (adj), "having a well-developed sense of smell." The macrosmatic superhero rescues local residents from inadequately-aged cheese.

What is the punchline of your favorite joke?

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question. Previously 2017, 2019.

What is the punchline of your favorite joke?

I assure you that typos and punctuation below are [sic]:

• "[student's own first name]'s on time"
• "shut up cold water!"
• 1984
• G
• Ground beef
• Ground chicken
• 
  
• Im-Pasta
• Imagine :)
• Me!
• Nice
• Renato Pizza
• Swarthmore construction
• Tinean
• Your the only ten I see [sic]
• construcrian
• don't know one
• drawing a blank Im sorry :( <3
• hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog...
• pasta balls
• to get to the other side

Most popular answer by far was variations of "IDK" (x6).

These joke punchlines make me wonder about the preceding joke... 

... well, except for the best one:

• This is joke for all you mind readers:

This post's theme word is salvific (adj), "having the power to save or redeem." The psychic comic did not have many salvific punchlines.

What is your favorite hobby?

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is your favorite hobby?

• art                                                                                                                                         
• billiards                                                                                                                                   
• chess                                                                                                                                       
• cooking                                                                                                                                     
• dancing                                                                                                                                     
• fishing                                                                                                                                     
• frisbee                                                                                                                                     
• hiking (x2)                                                                                                                                 
• learning                                                                                                                                    
• movies                                                                                                                                      
• music                                                                                                                                       
• nails                                                                                                                                       
• procrastinating                                                                                                                             
• programming                                                                                                                                 
• reading                                                                                                                                     
• singing                                                                                                                                     
• sleeping (x7)                                                                                                                               
• softball                                                                                                                                    
• spending time with family                                                                                                                   
• spending time with people                                                                                                                   
• throwing                                                                                                                                    
• walking (x2)

This post's theme word is nutant (adj), "drooping, nodding." Many hobbyist nappers sat through lecture with nutant heads and glazed eyes.

What parallel-universe version of yourself would you like to be?

 I take attendance by having students answer a question.

What parallel-universe version of yourself would you like to be?

(all typos below are preserved as submitted)

Many students aspire to parallel-universe careers:

• pilot (x2)
• POTUS
• president
• economist
• lawyer
• chef
• cheffe
• astronaut (x2)
• commentator

Some wanted careers based on fame (mostly sports):

• PGA tour champ
• pop star
• win the masters
• dancer
• actress/dancer
• pro sport of some sort
• disc golfer

One single student wanted simply more money, in an amount I have not heard of:

• a bizzlionaire

One student wanted to be an inexplicable parallel-universe version, no further explanation:

a cold one

Some students were nonspecific but positive:

• living in nature
• maybe in bed

Some students were simply nonspecific:

• huh
• idk

And this week's most contented mid-semester student picked simply:

• idk I'm happy in this one

This post's theme word is lotic (adj), "relating to or living in flowing water." (Note that "lentic" is the same, but for still water.) The lotic parallel universe features many gills and a lot of waterproofing on electronics, but is otherwise quite familiar. There are a lot of reunions of the lotic and lentic branches of the family.

What is the best time of day for studying?

 I take attendance by asking students a question. (Previously 2019.)

What is the best time of day for studying?

Sorted by time, we had:

• 3am
• morning (x5)
• late morning
• midday (x2)
• 3pm
• afternoon in Johlberg
• post nap
• 5pm
• 5:15pm
• after dinner
• 7pm
• evening
• night (x7)
• midnight
• all times
• anytime
• after class

The specificity of to-the-minute accuracy on "best time" makes it sound like the optimal studying lasts only 1 minute, and by 5:16pm it has passed. That's worrying from an academic viewpoint.

This post's theme word is whelm (v tr), "to submerge; to overcome; to overwhelm." Study time whelms the student calendar.