Can you choose whether you are an interesting person or a dull person? To a large extent you can.  There are things you can do to make your company and your conversation interesting and there are things you can do that will make you boring.  If you want to be dull try the following…

At the beginning of the semester, I asked my students a simple question. See, I teach an unusual class, a core requirement that fulfills not just a social science or humanity requirement but also fulfills my university’s diversity requirement. In practical terms, that means that students working on satisfying their general education requirement can take…