"Come Quickly, Porn in Room 24!"

Curses! I totally had something to write about, but now I'm having trouble recalling... (5 minutes later ), ah hah! I remember.

The number of students that are in a class vary greatly. To me, so far, it would seem that there are three types of classes. Seminars (20 people or fewer), lectures (vary based on class), and lecture lectures (the 101s, basically as many people as can fit in the room). The basic lectures, though, are where things really fluctuate. For instance, an easy class with a boring lecture might start out with a large number of people and end up with no one. On the other hand, a class with an interesting name and interesting lecture that's difficult might start out big and stay big. However, perhaps the funniest (albeit these past ones weren't exactly "funny") is the following:

It's funny how some
Lectures can go from small to
Huge by word of mouth


For instance, I'm taking a class on word etymology. It's not exactly something that most people jump at the opportunity to take. And so, when I went in on the 1st day, the class probably had fewer than 20 people in it. The next week though, the class had about 60. I can only assume that this is because of the fact that the class is incredibly intriguing (we learn about the reasons why "cranberries" and "butterflies" are called what they're called) and an entertaining and educational way to spend a class period. My "Decadence" class also falls under the same principal. However, with Decadence, the class started out fairly large if only because of the really interesting course description. Then we watched a scene from the unrated version of Caligula. I swear, in the 5 minutes that the video was playing the class size tripled. The fact that my discussion section was only 8 people though would suggest that a good number of the lecture attendees are auditing. And I really can't blame them.