It’s been a long and rough journey throughout the semester, and the last thing I thought would keep me sane would be an English class. I have never been fond of the subject and made an effort to avoid it altogether, so far with a great deal of luck. Nouns, sentence structure, alliteration…none of it has ever done it for me. Don’t get me wrong I love a good book as much as the next guy, but I never understood the point of really spending a great deal of time on the little things. Numbers have taken the place of words for me. Which is clear to see from the major I have chosen. They just seem to much easier to make sense of. 2 + 2 will always = 4. But in the language department there are so many different ways to make something correct. I guess I need an objective answer to all life’s problems. Anyways, where was I? Oh yes. Every one of my other classes this semester has involved number crunching. And as much as I do love it, one can only look at a balance sheet or calculate a weighted average cost of capital for so long. A little after the midway point of the semester all the numbers and formulas from all my business classes started to blend together. I felt like I was losing it. But then I remembered that twice a week for 90 minutes each I could escape from the world of Wall Street. It was a privilege to listen to someone lecture, or better yet, lead or guide a class through a topic with such enthusiasm. There are few people in the world that truly love what they do, and your (Christine) passion for the subject is second to none. Thank you for helping me keep my sanity in this semester. It seemed like just yesterday I was learning the basics of how to rhetorically analyze a work or public argument, and now I’m writing my final blog. As Semisonic says in their song “Closing Time”, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.” This is the end of the beginning of my education on public discourse, and I look forward to taking this new found knowledge of rhetoric and applying it to the new beginning and the next stage of my educational career.
Signing off, S.T.L.
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