The truth...
So yesterday, as I got ready for class, Alison sent me this email:
"Maybe Professor [Pet name redacted] can tell them how he feels about them. Not generalities and conclusions about the class, what they've accomplished, "go forth and conquer", etc etc.
How he feels. About them. Open."
She knows, of course, how I feel about this class. But I didn't tell you. Because that would be too weird.
Whatever this class was to you, any of you, it was even more to me. You were a gift, and each of you was so necessary to the others, which is really what a seminar should be. I'll never get a class this great again, ever. You changed the way I think (and feel!) about more subjects than just blogging. OK, that's as open as I can be. It should have come out last night, but I figure: I''m here to teach you, not gush all over you.
But thank you.
posted by Printer's Devil @ 10:36 AM
13 Comments:
I dunno...that World Series team comment pretty much said it all. Thanks for your openness Colin. I will miss all of you.
This may be too late, but if anyone writing a paper wants some semi-hard data about bloggers, Blogads Blog Survey was done in 2004 and 2005.
Anthropology of the Blogosphere may also be of interest...
...and there is an article in NYT tomorrow (Sunday) about political blogs:
see here
And you may want to look at an academic blog survey
Thanks Colin. It certainly was a class that I will remember always, and when listening to your show in the afternoons, I'm certain that nostalgia will consume me from time to time (when you're not yelling at old ladies who call in). It's a shame you don't teach more courses at Trinity. You did a terrific job, and you've inspired me to continue blogging.
In addition, I've decided to continue to blog on my class blog only, thus coming out of hiding and ending my secret blog. I've decided that I'd rather throw my bottle into an empty ocean, why not start with one already filled with shark victims.
Thanks for everything. Now back to this damn paper.
I said it on my blog, but it's certainly worth repeating; it would be almost impossible to duplicate this experience. The confluence of personalities, the uniqueness of the course material, and, even I agree, the excellence of the professor, made this semester unforgettable. My question is: how the hell are you going to do this again? Congratulations and good luck.
Colin,
A few heart-felt thoughts from you, who is always so careful both with words and emotions, means much more than a flowery speech. We all had a wonderful time.
I feel like I've made some new friends with whom I hope to keep in touch, including you. I have no one else in my life who uses the word "cat" to mean something other than a small, furry, domesticated animal. How can I give that up?
Maybe next year, you can teach a writing course that uses a blog as the medium for sharing and critiquing work -- or something else different enough for us to justify taking your class again.
You--weird--never!! That was the best thing! Having an unconventional professor made for interesting and unpredictable. I actually thought I liked conventiality in the classroom but I've been converted. Not having a "normal" syllabus drove me nuts at first, as did the political blogs, but I still couldn't miss a thursday night because --well that was just it--I might miss something. I don't think I did. It took me some time to get those things like --links--yeah--that's the ticket. And I know I drove some people crazy(even people outside of our class)but they let me discover things in my own time and better late than never I could finally link and upload pictures.Thanks to everybody--I won't soon forget you all. Now there's no limit to what is possible. Thanks!!
P.S. Professor who? Come on let us in on the pet name.
Imagine, the golden ages of the academy (ancient Greece, medieval-turning-enlightenment Europe)must have been something like our fall semester together. Studying...hell, discovering and evolving!... a new human innovation; poking at how the new innovation changes and illuminates the old innovations; and best of all doing it all with an unusually excited conductor and a (most of the time) excitable set of instrumentalists (like Sun Ra and his Arkestra).
By far, the juiciest graduate class I've ever been in. Mille grazie, tutti.
Would that have been
Professor Bloggypants????
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