Email from a student

6 July 2016: Today's good thing comes from an email from a former student. An art major, she took my core curriculum Survey of American Literature in her last semester (this past spring). I always say that this course is one of my favorites to teach because of the material and the students; they are rarely English majors, so my job is to get them excited about American literature, see that it matters, and see that they have something to say about it. And it usually works. This email provided some more validation. She also included an attachment--a quotation she came across that she thought I would like. She was right.