I am more posting this for me than for the credit, but pardon the lateness. This class has been a really interesting one. It’s been equal parts challenging and rewarding – so much so that I find myself genuinely sad that it’s ending. I don’t think I have ever had such a collaborative experience in reading, nor have I spent as much time close reading any number of passages from books that I have read. I feel like I’ve put my brain through a gymnastics course and it’s come out with a bronze trophy – I’m not going to claim that I aced this class or had the easiest time understanding Moby-Dick, why lie at this point? We’ve all struggled, we’ve all worked hard, and we’ve all done our darndest to get the most out of this that we can.

I think my big takeaway is that all of us should be proud of what we’ve done but we should also try to take these skills and apply them to every class moving forward. This is only going to better serve us in the future, regardless of what our majors are.