11/18: a fitting farewell

It was my last text-based discussion day in the freshman seminar I teach on utopian literature (we'll be workshopping projects after this).  We read two short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin:" Sur" and "Newton's Sleep."  The students' thoughts and comments were really good, and it felt like a nice end to this part of the course.  And in a way it's a farewell to the texts of this course for me:  these seminars rotate among faculty, and I've now done my two-year stint, so I won't be teaching these works again in the foreseeable future.  In all:  I'm proud of the syllabus I designed, I feel lucky to have found such a good selection of texts to use, and I know that thinking about the texts on my own and with students has changed me as a person.