Probably the best thing is that when I walk across campus now, I know essentially every student I run into. I’m not very good with names, but I do recognize that the student was in my class; and we have a more personal interaction than I ever had in lecture. In lecture, the room could be empty and the environment would be essentially the same. So, I have a lot more social interaction with the students than I did before, and it makes me feel better about what I do. Students come to me and tell me that they are going to graduate, or how they’re doing in this next class. Sometimes they come to me and say, “Maybe you could try to convince this professor that they could use a little more activity in their classroom.”

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