This class truly taught me a lot. I often leave courses feeling unsatisfied and feeling as if I wasted my time not having truly learned anything new. This class was the complete opposite. I came into this class with no expectations. i had never read Moby Dick before and was honestly just expecting to be in simply just another english class, but I truly couldn’t have been more wrong. This class opened my eyes in so many different ways. So often when I read I look at novels from such an objective perspective because that is the way in which I enjoy reading. However, this course truly made me develop such a profound appreciation for close reading an annotation. I think that appreciation came truly not from the novel, but from everyone in the class. The passion that Professor Pressman brought to the class was truly contagious and hearing the way people speak about chapters that I hadn’t even considered as important or impactful made me leave class every single day excited to come back. It has been quite an overwhelming semester for me with my workload both in and out of school and this course truly reinvigorated a spark that I thought was slowly dying. My love for reading has become rather intertwined and synonymous with my education every since I started college and that has been rather difficult for me. This class brought that love back because it essentially taught me to read again. It took me back to the start and made me fall in love with literature all over again. Thank you Professor Pressman!!