Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Freshmen Freshpeople are so hard to predict
Tomorrow evening I'm co-leading a viewing-discussion of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with a colleague. A group of freshmen freshpeople in her class and a few other classes will be there. Our predictions about what they will say and think are wildly divergent. Many bets have been placed between us, and I expect to lose them all (she is always right about such things). But I'm curious what you think. Most questions involve the movie of course, but we will ask one (to set them up for later) before they watch it. It is a necessarily vague multiple choice with unsatisfyingly simple answers, but it must be. Here it is:

Think about the way you make choices (especially big, almost-certainly-life-changing ones) in your life, when faced with a do-some-thing or don't-do-it fork in the road (not competing positive choices, just do it, or don't do it). Which of the following influences are you most likely, ultimately, to depend on for guidance:

A) Facts
B) Your gut instincts/Desire
C) Memory/Experience
D) Advice from a friend who may have faced a similar choice

What would you say? And you can't combine the choices, split between them, add to them. You must choose one area as being the most influential over you. What would you expect college freshmen freshpeople (at a fairly conservative Christian University) to say? I'll fill you in on the results after we're done.

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