THIS is what college is all about — find YOUR thing! In this case, History professor Dr. John Monroe joined the Philosophy Club, an undergrad organization at Iowa State, to talk about the historical context and main points of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism at its February meeting. Attendees chatted about what Dr. Monroe called “the high points” — how Sartre drew on and modified the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger; his conceptions of “absurdity” and “anguish” in relation to human freedom; and the ideas of self-awareness and being-for-others that stand behind Sartre’s famous statement, “Hell is other people”(from the play “No Exit”). Forty or fifty students, from many different majors attended, eager to ask questions and discuss big ideas. According to Dr. Monroe, they “did their thing for maybe three hours — and it was truly a blast!”