This sprung from being asked the question in the first panel. I was sorely tempted to re-use the clip art from Couple Studying but it’s one of my few remaining rules I haven’t broken. So I hunted up this clip, which in some ways is better and in some ways less realistic.
I mean, I can’t imagine any actual students this age having this conversation. This would have to be some kind of enclave for the hypergifted. These are like the Platonic ideal of students.
Oh well, when life gives you Platonic ideal students, use the Socratic method.
What do I mean by that?
Discuss.
This is the best one I have seen.
As I read the archives, it occasionally makes me sad that we can’t see all the comments from the old site. This is at least the third or fourth one where I’ve thought, I bet there were some awesome exchanges by the readers for this one when it was new.
Of course, there is kind of a cool effect going on, with this archive slowly building up its own comment archive. If the current incarnation of PC persists long enough, there could be conversations that literally take years, as new readers respond to comments from previous new readers, and old readers occasionally revisit the stacks.
And Rob, if you’re reading this… Well, not that I’ll ever know, but I hope you’re getting something from knowing people are still reading and enjoying this stuff.