Th switching of modes and modalities in ENGL 324 was the most fun not only for my peers but also for myself because the data that came back was quite expressive. There were Play-dough sculptures and drawings that really had something to say. A sculpture of a beer bottle was expected but also appreciated for when I was their age that was my main focus every weekend also: escaping the crushing doldrums of being a professional during the week or as my ex-wife used to say, "My brain turns off at 5 pm on Fridays and turns back on on Mondays at 9 am" or the other saying, "I'm an engineer, don't expect me to think!" I could understand and appreciate the need to let one's hair down and paint happy faces on one's knees on weekends.

The only mode of communication I would have had trouble with interpreting was a foreign language if this was how they chose to respond. I could read mathematics, statistics, symbolic logic, digital, diagrams, images, sculptures, Aldus lamp, Morse code, smoke signals, semaphore flags, ad naueum. A foreign language other than Spanish would have left me in a lurch. Fortunately no one did this: lucky for me.