Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Yes, I know I'm very fortunate to teach classes at a private university where the Religion department's classrooms really only hold 24 students comfortably (for the most part), so they cap all their courses at 24 or smaller -- even the required "global studies" courses that everybody has to take sooner or later.

But you may need to remind me later on in the semester that 70 papers and 70 essay exams to grade in that last week IS something to be thankful for. (I'm also thinking that maybe I should've skipped the sectional exams during the semester this year, but it's one of the few ways I can get a real feel for whether or not they're 'getting it', before the semester's so far gone that it's too late to fix.)

Hope your semester is a good one, too.