So long, farewell, ....

I have read and evaluated your final papers. For the most part, your papers are well done. After a little bit of rest--maybe by tomorrow--I will post the letter grades for your papers on the class webpage.

Your letter grades for the course should be available to you within the next couple of days through the university's online services. Feel free to contact me after that if you think I might have erred in computing the letter grade for the course.

My thanks to many of you who added in the emails, or sometimes in the final paper, a sentence or two appreciating this course and my teaching.

I have often commented to colleagues, and blogged too, that as a teacher this is probably one of the best differences between a regular class and an online class: on their own, students convey their appreciation in the online environment, but rarely do in a regular class.
Of course, it could be because my regular classes suck! But, I think--or, I want to believe--that the online environment makes it easy to say nice things, whereas a face-to-face interaction can potentially make it an awkward interaction, for the student or the teacher or both. Many times I have even ended up as a messenger--students tell me that a professor X was awesome, and I have then conveyed that to X :-)

Enjoy the rest of the summer. I hope to see you around--either in one of my classes, or when you drop in for a chat. Yes, swing by and say hi anytime you see me in my office at HSS 219.