10 off-the-wall questions to make evaluating the course more fun that it looks!

2. Warning: This will be the
strangest course
evaluation you’ve ever
completed.
Period.

3. I’m feeling like Abed from
Community today, so here we
go. You’re going to be Taken.
You must send a life-or-death
tweet describing Dr. Phill’s
class to Liam Neeson so he
can rescue you. What is that
tweet? (140 characters
maximum).
If you’re looking for money, I don’t have any. But what I
do have is a very rhetorically situated set of skills.

4. You’re being held hostage,
and the hostage taker asks
“What did you learn this
semester?”
He’s got a serious look on
his face, and he wants
specifics. What do you do?
WHAT DO YOU DO?
(yay, aSpeed joke! These are sooo fresh!)

5. Driving a cab that says “fresh” on
the license plate and has dice on
the mirror, Dr. Phill shows up to
save you. He shouts “meet me at
the safe house specified on your
syllabus! The place we read about
last week!”
In a world where reading the
syllabus and doing your
homework means you’d know
where to go, are you saved, or do
you need to phone a friend? And
why?

6. Verbal Kint just walked out of
the police station. As the
semester flashes before your
eyes…
What was your favorite part of
class?
What was your least favorite
part of class?
What was the part of class that
was so completely in the middle
it just existed?
And who was Keyser Soze?

7. I don’t wanna be Dr. Pink.
As an instructor, what
color is Dr. Phill?
(AKA Dr. If This was Reservoir Dogs Phill)
Why?
*remember that we learned color theory*

8. It’s the end of our client based
project, and it turns out Bruce
Willis was dead the whole time.
If we could go back and re-
watch the movie, what would
the revelations of the
experience of working through
the project lead us to see/do
differently?

9. I offer you the red pill and the
blue pill. No drug jokes, plz.
We’re talking “the good one of
the three Matrix films” here.
I say to you, after you take the
blue pill, “I didn’t say it’d be easy,
Neo. I only said it would be the
truth.”
What is “the truth” of this course
and this semester?

10. Time to go meta. NBC wants to replace 30
Rock with VisRhet: The Next Generation.
Cast someone to play Dr. Phill, and explain:
1.Why the casting choice
2.What the tone of the show would be (you
can compare it to existing programs if you
wish)
3.What the plot of the pilot episode would
be
4.Why.

11. It’s the last episode, Hurley is the
new Jacob and apparently Locke
was a big cloud of pepper. Or
whatever. Bad Robot sort of
dropped the ball on that one.
What’s something you’ll miss
about the island…er…class?
Be as specific as you can. If you
won’t miss anything, just hum
“Heartless” by Kanye West and
wait for the next slide, you h8r.

12. We’re sitting in a booth, eating onion rings,
wishing Meadow could park her car and
listening to Journey. The screen just goes
black.
Okay, so we’re not actually eating onion
rings in New Jersey. To keep the symbolic
power of that Sopranos ending, what would
you be doing when this class cuts to black
for 30 seconds before the credits, and
why?