Non Campus Mentis shows there is hope for all students

Almost every college student has the test they didn't study for, the paper they blew off, or the class they shouldn't have skipped. Every student has an answer that they could not believe they wrote. Non Campus Mentis, World History According to College Students, shows the results of students' unfortunate study habits or plain foolish responses. This collection, compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson of Shepherd College in West Virginia, is a hilarious compilation of all the dumb answers students wish they could take back.\nAnders takes the reader through history, beginning with the Stoned Age and and finishing with The Age of Now. In each chapter there are several excerpts from papers or blue book exams containing the ludicrous answers of harried students. These students maintain Joan of Arc achieved fame as the wife of Noah, victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks and Hitler's instrument of terror was the Gespacho. These malapropisms and revisionist theories grow funnier by the page. Turns out that Judaism has one god named "Yahoo," Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March after he said "Me too Brutus," and Martin Luther nailed ninety-five theocrats to the church door. Somehow I recall history a little differently, but who am I to point fingers? After all, this is world history according to college students, and that is what I am.\nI thoroughly enjoyed Non Campus Mentis. It was a quick and funny read, and I felt a certain solidarity with the unintentional authors of the book. I, too, feel like I have made bloopers like these on a history exam in the past. The ridiculous statements made by the students who were unfortunate enough to have their tests and papers sampled made me chuckle, not only at their mistakes, but at the knowledge that I could have easily been the person who believed that Magellan circumcised the globe.