Accomplished

So I should probably wait to write this post until AFTER finals, but I need a little mental break right now. I was chatting with one of my favorite professors the other day (we were walking the same way after class) and he asked me about my classes and how the year was going. I said that I'm just feeling so accomplished. I should mention that the reading list for his class was about 20 books long (no joke). Some were just excerpts, but we did read at least 5 full novels. Because his class was all about early American bestselling novels, we read a lot of stuff that people always talk about (but rarely have ever actually read). We read Pilgrims Progress, which I now can see in so many other things. If you've read Little Women (which we did), it's all over that book. We read Ben Franklin's Autobiography and Pamela and Robinson Crusoe and so many others. That was just one class. Add those books to the ones that I've read in my other English Classes and I am ready to go! Sticking with the English major was totally the right thing for me. Imagine reading the bible for the first time then looking around and seeing how it is EVERYWHERE! That's how I feel each time I read a new book.

Even though I don't exactly enjoy writing papers, I will do it if it means that I get to participate in these classes. I really love discussing literature.

A little side note on this professor. I had him for my advanced writing class last year, decided to take this class from him and worked my schedule for next semester around taking another class from him he's that awesome of a teacher. He showed up to class the first day wearing a bright yellow suit jacket and a sunflower tie. He is about 6'5" or taller and relatively young (I think he has two elementary aged daughters). His whole thing is Adam and Eve, so he always brings that up - reading East of Eden with him was a blast. He paces when he gets excited about something. So if you bring up something in the discussion and he gets loud and starts walking around, you know you are on to something good. He wears bow ties occasionally and his wife makes them for him (they are really fun, not just solid colors).