One of my students
during group work
during discussion time
during sharing time
during collaboration and discourse time
has instead been drawing elaborate and increasingly expanding fractals
on the wall hidden by a column
next to his mini-desk.
I would have noticed this much earlier
in the semester
if I had walked around the room
and taken the time to go
into the back corners
where the international students
and other non-group work-student inclined student sit
some of whom can draw
it appears
the most elaborate fractals
which are much more beautiful and complex
than the off-white walls.