Honors

i just wanted to mention how interesting i found the discussion in class today about what makes an honors student. the fact that many of the different things we said related to each other was not surprising and infact made alot of sense because many of the characteristics are commonly found together with many of the other ones we noted. i wanted to add that i think honors students need to be adventurous which kind of related to some of those mentioned but was not even mentioned on its own. honors students need to be willing to look at things that might not normally be looked at and to discuss them rationally and critically. they must be willing to think outside the box on issues which have been long debated, maybe they will see somthing new that has not been thought of before. over all i think we did a pretty good job of describing what hte ideal qualities of an honors student are.

a side note being i also enjoyed Professor Sillimans sense of humor and straighforward answers to the classes questions. i'm pleased that i got to interact with him some as i'm going to be taking a course with him next semester and i had never met him.