I'm stuck for ideas - what should I write about?
There are two ways to use the questions on this page: pick a single question and answer it in detail as the basis for a blog entry or answer some (or all) of them briefly in a single entry. We thought the former would be more common; to our surprise the latter seem much more popular.
Meta-question
- What question would you add to this list for future readers?
April 2005
- What would have on your headstone?
- What's your dream car?
- Is pornography morally wrong?
- Write the opening line of a wonderful novel
- What's the best music video ever?
March 2005
- If you had a big win in the lottery, how long would you wait to tell people?
- Do you carry a donor card? Why (or why not)?
- Where would you like to retire?
- What is something you wish you were better at doing?
- What colour do you prefer your pens to write?
- Are babies cute?
- Do you subscribe to a magazine? If so, what?
- What's your favorite shape?
- What was the last thing you used a microwave for?
- What book are you reading?
- Do you like rollercoasters?
- Which came first - the chicken or the egg?
- Cite a song lyric that means something to you
- What's the best photo you've ever taken?
February 2005
- Write a new couch gag for the opening credits of The Simpsons
- Tell me a knock-knock joke
- Describe yourself in five words
- Who should play James Bond now that the role is vacant?
- Write a haiku (3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables)
January 2005
- What comic book (or cartoon) character would you be? Why?
- What's the oldest thing you own?
- What's your favourite word?
- What word(s) do you hate?
- Name something you used to like but no longer do. What changed your view?
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
December 2004
- Who would you have liked to be?
- What historical figure(s) do you most despise?
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Do you keep friends once you've made them?
- What's the best advice you've ever received? From whom?
- Which reality TV show would you be most suited for?
- How would you like to die?
- What is your motto? Why?
- Why do you blog?
- Name one web site you'd recommend to others
- Name one Warwick Blog you read
November 2004
- What's the strangest thing you've brought with you to university?
- Would you renationalise the railways? Why (or why not)?
- Whose thoughts would you most like to read?
- What have you lost that you'd most like to retrieve?
- What's your favourite red thing?
- If you had the power, what laws would you make, or change, or repeal?
- What are some things that make you nervous?
- What's the best tasting food you've ever eaten?
- What's your favourite boy's name? Girl's name?
- Why did you choose the course you're studying?
- What's on the walls in your room? Why?
- Name a CD you own that's a guilty pleasure (one you adore, but pretend not to for fear of irreversible negative social consequences). Why do you like it?
- What item belonging to your friends would you most like to own yourself?
- Where will you be in five years' time?
- What one thing would you most like to accomplish with your life?
- What's your favourite scary movie?
- Who's funnier: Jim Carrey or Bill Murray?
- Have you ever been in a school play? Was it good? Were you good?
- What's the furthest place you've ever travelled to?
- Have you ever won a trophy? What for?
- Name a book you'd recommend to a friend. Why?
- What's your favourite cartoon? Why?
- Which animal do you most resemble in appearance and habit?
- What mesmerises you?
- Which other universities did you apply to? Why did you choose Warwick?
- Name something about yourself that people don't expect
- What's your favourite place on campus? Why?
- If you won £5 million, how would you spend it?
- If you could invent a piece of technology that would improve your academic life, what would it be and why?
- What everyday item is the most well-designed? (Fit for purpose and aesthetically pleasing.)
- What's your favourite time of day? Why?
- Describe what you consider to be the most beautiful view in the world
- What are your strengths?
- What is your favourite artwork on campus?
- Which issue would make you want to become a politician?
- Which union society would you make every other student join?
- Where is best to live: Leamington, Coventry, Kenilworth or on campus?
- Which book has helped you most with your work?
- What is the best thing you have done in a seminar?
- What is the best moment you have had in a lecture?
- What would convince you to choose a specific career?
- Which module would you make compulsory?
- What was your biggest mistake in your first year?
- List your top revision tips