Fin

It is really unbelievable that a semester has gone past so quickly. It was not until Thanksgiving break that it really dawned on me that another semester was basically over. Looking back on my semester is not something that I feel ready to do.....it is too soon.....I am just not prepared to acknowledge that 2007 is coming to a close....I don't want to see children sitting on Santa's lap just yet (I saw it today at Wal-Mart)....IT'S JUST TOO SOON.... ..... fine. I have to say that I enjoyed the class and liked the teacher (I am not just saying that [last semester I dropped my English class because I did not like it or the teacher]). The books we read were, in general, not the type of thing I would have read on my own and really caused me to pause and think. Several of the books were written from perspectives with which I was not familiar and made me reconsider some of my presuppositions (and consider some of my other presuppositions). The class discussions were intelligent and sometimes quite insightful; I was impressed by the low number of pointless tangents that might have been expected if the discussions had not been well led. English was my only class in which I did not struggle to remain conscious; the interaction was a nice hiatus from the normal lecture style classes or from the even worse "Death By PowerPoint" style Air Force briefings. In conclusion, I've learned lot's of things in this class (such as snazzy closings like "In conclusion" and how great contractions are) and I hope that I contributed something to everyone's classroom experience and general quality of life.