“Each holiday, we send the other person a bad gift. It started off fairly tame, then got weirder and weirder every year,” recalls Alice. “One year she sent me a hospital gown. So I sent her…

As part of university orientation week activities, I asked a hundred first-year students the same icebreaker question. I was impressed with the creativity and the level of depth in many of the answers.  Here are some of the most memorable responses.