Response to Hidden Intellectualism

I really enjoyed this article because of how it relates to us as students. He uses language and examples that we can understand in an interesting way to draw our attention. Using the word hood was a good way to create an imagine in the readers mind because that word is still used today, and I don't know about you, but a soecific imagine pops in my head everytime. It was also a good way to intice the reader by using Sports Illustrated as an example of what he read because it's one of the biggest magazines around now. I really liked the line "I can't blame my schools for failing to make intellectual culture resemble the Super Bowl." I liked this line because even someone who isn't into sports, which is tied in throughout this entire paper, knows what the Super Bowl is. He purposely constructed his paper in a highly relatable way to college students, which makes it enjoyable to read rather than dreadful.

In contrast though, he also used words that I didn't know off the top of my head as if to prove his intellectual identity now. I had to look up multiple words such as invidious, pedagogical, and microcosms. I enjoyed the fact that even though this piece of writing was relatable and engaging, it also challenged my mind and made me dig deeper to get the full understanding of it.