Background: Partly as a social experiment, but mostly as a joke, I labeled a file folder as “Mister Hwang’s Personal Files. Do Not Open”. I also wrote “TOP SECRET” in bright red and included a note to mind your own business inside the folder. I then left the folder out in an area near my desk before class started. Here are two reactions that happened within just a few minutes of leaving the folder out.
Student 1 [upon opening the folder and reading my note]: “Oh! Was I not supposed to open this?”
Student 2: “What’s in here? What if it’s Mr. Hwang’s grades? Argh! I want to open it, but it says ‘Do Not Open’.”
I conveniently turn away.
Student 2: “It’s so intriguing!”
Several students laugh signifying the opening of the folder. (3/16/18)
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