Thanks Caitlin and everybody!

Throughout all my years of schooling, I was not always one to connect with teachers or adults. I was always very cynical of adults and even a little bit till this day, but during my senior year of high school one teacher changed that. His name was Mr. Curtis and he was my Physics teacher at the time; the first day I walked into the class, I thought he was literally a mad scientist. While he was explaining the syllabus he was talking crazy fast and he even pretended to throw a boulder at someone but luckily it was fake. At one point he even cut off a piece of this girl's hair and used matches just to burn it. But as the term progressed the whole class saw what kind of teacher he was. Although we did not understand ANYTHING he was talking about, he was possibly one of the most caring teachers/human beings you could meet. He always stayed after school to help his students, went out of his way to help boost our grades up and even offered us water or juice whenever we were thirsty. Even though I did not learn that much from him educationally, he ended up being my favorite teacher in high school because of the compassion he showed for his students and how he went out of his way to help us understand what we were learning.

 





The quotation above from Albert Einstein with the combination of Mr. Curtis was almost if not exactly the kind of teacher Caitlin had turned out to be for me. I am not just writing this because I know she is going to read it or because I am being graded for this, but because I know I am speaking for almost everyone in this class (well hopefully everyone agrees with me lol). Throughout this whole semester, I believe that Caitlin has taught us more about writing than what we could have learned in the past 4 years of high school. The first day I walked into her class, I thought she was going to be like those college professors who didn't give a rat's ass about their students and were only their to teach because they were paid to do so. Caitlin was the opposite of that; she actually took her time to sit down and discuss our essays with us, gave us useful writing skills and techniques that will be applicable for our future papers or any kind of writing in life and she even brought donuts for us during the grammar lessons....what college professor is that awesome enough to bring their class donuts?!

Anyways as I was saying, Caitlin has done what Albert Einstein has stated which was to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge especially with these blogs and the free writes. Caitlin has become one of my favorite teachers along with Mr. Curtis and as I mentioned previously, I am not the type to connect with adults. I really wish that we could all have English 214 with her and each other again. Although I didn't talk to everyone in the class I feel like we all connected through these blogs even if it is anonymous. I hope you all enjoyed having Caitlin as a teacher as much as I did and enjoyed this class. Good luck with the rest of any finals you guys may have, next semester and college! Thanks :)