Welcome to the blog for Intro to AMS, Fall 2012, for Hilary's sections! Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and you will), is as follows: During weeks 7, 8, 9, and 10 you will be responsible for posting to a class blog. The entire section will be split into two groups – either A or B. During the week that your group is assigned to post, the other group will be assigned to comment on your posts. Your posts and comments are expected to be at least four sentences long. We expect these posts to engage current events taking place during Fall 2012 because they are meant to be real-world extrapolations of the course materials. You can pick a current news item and then think about it in terms of the course concepts or the course readings. If you want to apply the course concepts to popular culture then feel free to do so (believe me, I have lots to say about hip hop, and am conversant in both Bieber fever and NBA trades.) Looking forward to hearing what you all have to say!