001.
Why is it that our collective student body and professors insist on distracting us from our studies and other intellectual interests in order to celebrate a holiday which is, admittedly, quite lovely, but undoubtedly one that not everyone celebrates? Unless we are to receive some sort of leniency in our classes, forcing us to take the time out of our studies to construct mystery gifts and letters seems wholly unnecessary.
Receiving a letter and gift in which the sincerity of such an action will be entirely questioned due to the mandated nature of the assignment seems unlikely to actually promote the inter-house cooperation and niceties that are supposedly intended by our administration.
If the activity is unlikely to succeed, then what, I ask, is the point of forcing participation in the first place?I am not sure I even know who
Then there is this insistence on things such as dances, which are entirely unnecessary and who would a person even ask to such an event. Not to mention
Receiving a letter and gift in which the sincerity of such an action will be entirely questioned due to the mandated nature of the assignment seems unlikely to actually promote the inter-house cooperation and niceties that are supposedly intended by our administration.
If the activity is unlikely to succeed, then what, I ask, is the point of forcing participation in the first place?