Instead, I had a strange freshman year which required no literature (aside from my forensic delivery of a portion from Patriot Games) and required the memorization of a massive amount of facts regarding the social security system and some of the possible "fixes" for it. We did not do spectacularly, winning some events and losing at others, but I remember the entire experience with a kind of bored fondness. It was in that class that I made some of my best friends as well as made the fateful decision to audition for The Sound of Music and later for Vocal Dimension (our school's top choir).
I suppose that it's time to give another generation the same opportunity.
I was asked if I would be willing to start up a Drama-Debate-Forensics team here at SoHi. After a good deal of consideration [I originally wrote "debate," but it was too on-the-nose], I told those in charge of such things that I would like to start such a program. It will not be a class, but an extra-curricular team--which I prefer as it would allow me to continue to build and train students from one year to the next. There is a great deal about how this works that I still don't know--in fact, I currently don't understand enough to even know what questions to ask. Still, I figure that I will work it out ... you know, during all of my spare time.
Stress aside, I feel like this was the right decision.