Elementary Education Major Mistakes Plato Seminar For Play-Doh Seminar
School October 14, 2026 The New England Classic
STOKES HALL — For most students, class registration is a nightmare at Boston College. Meeting with advisors, praying for a good pick time, and hoping your chosen professors don’t have severe personality disorders can be stressful.
“The feeling it evokes is sort of like when you see your friend’s mom in the condom aisle, you know?” said one of EagleApp’s many victims. “Like, it’s all sweaty and uncomfortable, and you’re panicked, so you rush and pick the first thing that seems like it might work. When you get out of there, it’s like you’ve escaped war, dude. But you did it. You escaped that hell. Yeah, I’d say that’s the same feeling that class registration gives me.”
Many Eagles try to find workarounds, sometimes paying friends with earlier pick times to hold a spot in a class for them, or threatening professors who “don’t know yet” if they can override them into their class.
One student, Inez Fant (LSEHD ‘27), reported that after bribing and plotting and scheming, she finally got into her dream class: the seminar, “Molding Young Minds with Plato.”
When The New England Classic asked Inez Fant (LSEHD ’27) about her decision to join the class, she excitedly reported that she, “could not wait to get working with her hands,” and that “the blue and green kinds are by far [her] favorite.” Fant failed to mention any of Plato’s actual writings, but did talk about using puppets, which is perhaps an allusion to “The Allegory of the Cave.”
When Fant was asked what she was most looking forward to, she stated: “I just like how it feels between my fingers. I need tactile stimulation; I’m a big fan of recess!”
The professor for the course, Dr. Saw Fistry, head of Boston College’s Philosophy Department, revealed that he utilized a new beta feature on the EagleApps registration page—instead of displaying a text-based title, he opted for a more sophisticated audio alternative. This decision led to Fant’s confusion, which was not helped by the course’s playfully enticing title.
