If you were transformed into an animal, you'd be a:

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

If you were transformed into an animal, you'd be a:

Many people picked mammals:

• polar bear
• flying squirrel
• dolphin (x2)
• wolf
• panda
• otter
• capybara
• sloth
• dog (x3)
• human (x3)
• bushbaby
• [own first name] (x3)

The surprising-to-me frontrunning category was birds. Birds!

• penguin (x3)
• bald eagle
• duck
• eagle
• owl
• bird (x2)
• Big Bird

Kudos for picking "birds", but the specificity of mammals was lacking here.

Then, as always, the outliers:

• shark (x2)
• stable matching
• meal
• dragon

I'm not sure that "stable matching" is an animal, so there's a type error there. Who wants to be a meal? At least one student in my class!

This post's theme word is infundibuliform (adj), "funnel-shaped." I'd be an infundibuliform sponge; it seems meditative.

What is your favorite number?

I take attendance by asking students a question.

What is your favorite number? (previously: 2017)

Everyone picked an integer, it was not a very interesting question for the first lab. I guess I should have primed their imaginations with weirder questions before giving them this one.


This post's theme word is ergophobia (n), "abnormal fear or aversion to work." Welcome to your laboratory session on Labor Day! I hope you don't have ergophobia.