Favorite student comments

Got the last paper. Grades are turned in. Here’s my last (semi-official) teaching act of the spring 2004 semester. In my first-year composition classes, the final exam question asks students to reflect on what they’ve learned about themselves as writers over the course of the semester. Here are two of my favorite quotes from the essays I just finished reading:

“I am starting to realize that I have a real problem with procrastination. I want to do something about it but I keep putting it off.”

“I’ve learned through the course of this class to not procrastinate which has always been my nature. In this course procrastination equals death or something bad like that.”