10 April 2025: While the actual highlight of my day was talking to Vogel on her birthday, in keeping with the trend of "stuff my students say," I am going with this dialogue from a conference with an ENGL 102 student.
[Student explains that her draft is the first "complete" version. She pushed on through and got it out.]
Me: That's great--it's good to get there and you still have lots of time. How does that feel?
[long pause]
Student: Dead.
Linguistically, grammatically...it doesn't work as an answer. But baby, it sure worked to express what she was feeling. She's a high school senior who is doing too much. She is tired. But she has her sense of humor and we laughed about it.
And the paper will be fine.
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