When you use a such a phrase as "how are you", I become quite confused as to the implications. A multitude of scenarios could come from a 3 word asking. Could you possibly be inquiring about my personal well-being; are you truly concerned about how I am today, or are you using this merely as a conversation starter on a website designed for question ask and answer? Perhaps it was the beginning of an infinitely large or small amount of varying questions, bounded to the same idea, ranging from "how are you today", to "how are you feeling about the future of the big sibling program and its impacts on the Class of 2020 sophomores in a whole?" The list goes on. Could you have possibly made a human error, leaving out the most important mark in your incomplete message? How could one forget the ending sentence punctuation- the question mark? Now ask yourself, how does the question mark feel as it floats through literary space, unforgotten and unused. I would take a stab and say it feels quite upset at your lack of utilization. In a world of frightening grammatical errors and starving children, you may as well assume all of us feel such. Assuming you wrote this as a question designed for a response in the lines of "I'm okay, thanks" you are sorely mistaken, Joseph Coppola. If you asked this so-called "question" in the hopes you would receive a response such as this, I congratulate you for the thought and wish for more "questions" such as these.

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Scott Du
sdu@imsa.edu
Class of 2019