Response to Munirah's piece

First off, class at seven? That’s disgusting. Your piece, however, is not. I feel like when your description of what it is like to be young and playing a sport while your parents cheer on you regardless of what you do, is very incisive and the comment about how the look of the uniforms was most important is something that resonated with me strongly as it reminded me of how my friends and I used to dirty up our baseball uniforms before the game so as to look more intimidating and like the great players we watched. One question I have is, what exactly is the focus of the piece? Your perfectionism and your love of basketball both come through very strongly in it and I was just trying to figure out if they go together, which it seems that they do, or if one is supposed to come out more strongly in the piece. Regardless, you really manage to tie these things all up and compare them quite well to how you operate at Kalamazoo College which is also a small place and obviously very competitive. This piece is something that deals with emotions and feelings that all of us have experienced and I think you really hit on something here. Good job!