Little Gems

Every now and then I have one of those students, a student whose ideas and/or writing provides endless delight. I am almost done with my grading insanity now, and I saved the best final paper for last. I am grading undergraduate papers which means lots of writing-related irritations of one sort or another, but this last student hasn't failed to entertain me. One of my favorite sentences: "I do not feel that this is an activity greatly inhibited by the noise in the classroom, so upon reflection I still do not mind that the first five minutes after the bell in this period are best described as an eighth grade cantina."