Ready for a semester of shitlording! I am in a college class about Social Problems, and as I was reading through chapter one, I came across this:  "The fact that people at different times define different issues as social problems points to the importance of the social constructionist approach, the assertion that social problems arise as people define conditions as undesirable and in need of change. This approach states that social problems have a subjective foundation, reflecting people's judgments about their world.  For example, the public has yet to include obesity on the list of serious social problems, even though health officials say that most adults in the United States are overweight. This is true despite the objective fact that illness brought on by obesity costs the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in our country each year, which is many times the number of our soldiers who were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan". (Social Problems: Sixth Edition, John J. Macionis).  I live in the good ol' south where pretty much EVERY one is obese...especially at my school. I can already hear their piggy squeals of protest!! I'm so glad obesity was brought up already by week one, and I'm going to make sure to continue to bring it up as much as possible.  Hope all other students have a happy shitlordy school year as well!!