If you were a superhero, what power would you have?
Listed from usual to much less usual, students replied:
- invisibility
- flying
- run fast / super speed
- teleportation / being in multiple places at once
- shapeshifting
- time travel / ability to stop time / napping, but while I nap, time stops
- slowing time
- existing forever / immortality
- I would just be Aquaman
- superior intellect
- honestly this might be awful but reading minds
- rearrange atoms - make whatever I want
- greening the world
- produce infinite pasta
I appreciated the computer science-themed answers, too:
- brute-force algorithms in constant time
- moving nondeterministically
- solving P vs. NP
The "Wait, does that mean... ?" prize for most thought-invoking superpower goes to "breaking the fourth wall". A Most Meta Medal goes to the superpower, "make one more person a superhero."
But my favorite was the keep-your-dreams-manageable student whose superpower would simply be "to not be lactose intolerant."
This post's theme word is acnestis, "the part of the body where one cannot reach to scratch." (Etymology: from From Greek aknestis (spine), from Ancient Greek knestis (spine, cheese-grater).) My superpower would be the ability to eliminate my acnestis and satisfy an itch by scratching anywhere!
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