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Michelle Bloch's avatar

I wish I had you as a teacher. And while I’m dreaming, I wish Abby had you too.

Your students are so fortunate to have you, Alexandra.

Ps. Feels like there is a book in this topic.

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Caroline's avatar

What a beautiful comment from your student! There’s so many great nuggets here. I agree completely with “you’ve got to care about what you write.” That has made the long projects of my life the most bearable.

It’s not about getting everything right, it’s improving and maintaining.

One of my favorite professors in grad school told us that he didn’t expect for us to be able to address all of his comments and concerns from paper to paper. But he was looking to see that we had worked to address one of them. And if we did, that’s the only part he graded on...he didn’t want perfect, he wanted improvement.

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