The truths expressed below are universally acknowledged.

I am a simple man: I like pint glasses, long walks with the dogs, and campus news.

  • Like Samwise and Frodo on Mt. Doom.

I think I speak for everyone, however, in saying that I am a little tired of Courseworks discussion posts. They are neither beautiful, bold, nor Barnard. And they have interrupted my Thursday mornings for the last time.

There may have been a time, perhaps, when the Internet was new and those who set trends argued, “We must have the students write discussion posts”—and those people may have had good intentions—but we, with the benefit of hindsight, now understand just how disastrous the resulting Courseworks discussion post was. #longsentences

  • The Cloud is a property of matter.

So, what to do? It comes down to this:

Trees grow; times change; and Courseworks discussion posts must go.

“But what,” I hear some cry, “will replace Courseworks discussion posts?”

This article, I answer, will answer that question. Here are some alternatives to Courseworks discussion posts:

1. Putting Away Tools For Hours At A Time

  • Use tools to fix and build things.

2. Memorizing Phone Numbers

  • A good use of time, memorizing the phone book is.

3. Stacking Rocks

  • Stacking rocks in the hot sun.

4. Writing Four Essays

  • If we’re gonna have a writing assignment, may as well see the thing through.

5. Hypothesizing About Dry Ice

  • The aquatic mystique.

That is all. You may leaven deaven bow.

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