The Wire has recently been investigating a strange yet profound change in the Whitman curriculum. Unlike many other course additions which are given a fanfare of emails into just about everyone’s inboxes, it came with no sudden announcement. Instead, it has snuck upon us like a slinking snake, but instead of carrying venom that kills or paralyzes, it instead has a hallucinogenic effect of sorts. This strange, new class is known as ANTHRO-200: How to People.
ANTHRO-200 as a class focuses on a long-requested part of college teaching, that of giving advice on how to live in the modern world. Almost immediately it has become a fixture of the advancement to every student’s major, being available to anyone of any year. It teaches many vital skills for students such as calling a plumber, cleaning windows, talking with co-workers, surprise family visits and dealing with laundry. All of these students and faculty alike believe it is important to live healthy lives.
“This is going to be very good for Econ Majors,” said an anonymous Econ Major about ANTHRO-200. “Getting us grounded into a realistic living experience will help us better understand what the experience of a person without understanding stocks will be like.”
Another student in ANTHRO-200 said “How can I expect to do this when I don’t know how to tie a shoe? I’m doomed! DOOMED!” Despite how that feeling may be over them, I’m sure they’ll be fine, especially since I don’t know how to tie my shoes either.
There still remains a great deal of confusion about ANTHRO-200 that at the moment nobody has been willing to alleviate. And neither will The Wire for that matter because outside of what you’ve been told we honestly don’t know how this happened either. And not for lack of trying since we’ve done our hardest to find a trail to this, only to find barely anything about its development. It just feels like it came out of nowhere simply because someone was bored and needed us to write a story about this. But I’m sure that’s just ridiculous, right?
