Why can't Tufts offer "Sociology of Body Modification" during the year, instead of during the summer, when it costs a whopping $1575? For that price I could get, like, thirty piercings! Or a couple of tattoos.

To comfort myself, I've been assuring myself that the class probably sucks anyway. I don't need a textbook to tell me why thirteen-year-old girls get tongue piercings, after all.