What's the scariest thing you have ever done?
Swarthmore students apparently often encounter danger outdoors:
- almost fell off the side of mountain while hiking
- climb a mountain at night
- walked home from my town in the dark
- run for my life from a crazy dog through a snowy forest in Maine
- run through a forest during severe thunderstorm
- bridge jumping in Ecuador
- skydive?
- saw a shark
- almost fell off a waterfall
- almost got lost in a forest
- cage dive with great white sharks
Some people accurately experience fear at physical illness:
- been so dehydrated I had intense stomach pains and thought I was dying
- get sick before seminar
Some people accurately experience abstract fear at political situations:
- voted in the 2016 election
- live in the US during the Trump presidency
Unsurprisingly for an upper-level, abstract course in mathematics and computer science, there were several who expressed introvert fears:
- socializing
- life
- socializing
- talked
Other "scariest" experiences were mixed or inexplicable:
- been in a plane that had to emergency land and so dumped all its gas out the window
- play League of Legends
- I slept
- crossing an intersection while it's covered in ice in front of a truck
- ate wings with ghost pepper sauce
- played against Martin
- taken this class
This question didn't lend itself to joking answers, but one nevertheless made me laugh out loud: an answer that referred to a message from the homework-insta-marking algorithm: "1 attempt remaining."
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