What Interested You Most in The Times This Week?
By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
Last week we began our summer reading “Student Challenge” with this question, and we’ve gotten some great responses. We’ll be choosing a favorite from among them and posting it Friday.
This week we ask again, as we will every Monday: What interested you in The Times this week, and why? Whether you choose an article about pretzels, a blog post about life as a robot, or a slideshow of reader’s photos of the Gulf oil spill, tell us why it mattered to you.
In “Student Challenge | The Times as Your Summer Reading,” we explain some of the guidelines for this summer-long challenge:
We invite you to visit weekly to share the New York Times articles, columns, blog posts, photos, graphics, videos and podcasts you’ve found interesting, and tell us why you chose them.We’ll regularly read through all the comments and pull out a favorite. Then we’ll highlight that comment in a special post, just as we did for our previous Student Challenge.So whether you were moved by an article, amused by anessay, bowled over by a photo, irked by an editorial, intrigued by a feature, or inspired by a how-to, tell us what got your attention and why. We’re open to pretty much any response that follows our commenting rules.We’ll post the same Student Opinion question every Monday all summer long, starting today: “What Interested You Most in The Times This Week?” That’s where you should post your picks (and reasons why) anytime until the following Monday. Then we’ll close that post and open a new one with the same question.Feel free to participate each week.
Students: Tell us what you’ve read, watched or listened to in The Times recently that got your attention and explain why. Maybe you liked a piece because you have a personal connection to it, because it reminded you of someone or taught you something, or because it moved you or made you laugh. Or maybe you were annoyed by something you read and want to argue with it. Whatever: we’re just interested in hearing what you’re interested in.
Please keep your response to 400 words or fewer (you can test that with this tool), and please don’t include your last name — though if you’d like to include your age and hometown, that’s fine.
Students 13 and older are invited to comment below. Please use only your first name. For privacy policy reasons, we will not publish student comments that include a last name.