4/7: the last one

This morning I finished my last regular paper for my year of coursework.  I still have final projects to write, but this was the last of the weekly essays.  I'm ready to take a break from the steady press of having to formulate paper-worthy ideas and then write the actual papers arguing for the ideas, but I'm really glad I've had this steady experience.  I wouldn't have been able to make myself do it, and I'm a better thinker and writer (and perhaps also a better person?) for having done it.