And the semester ends.

I just hit "submit" on William & Mary's Banner Self-Service for Faculty page and sent all the grades to the registrar. The semester's over! (Pause for cheers.)

I only taught one seminar this semester: English 368, Creative Writing–Fiction. Every class is different; what really struck me about this group was that their writing actually improved over the course of the semester. And yes, that's what you aim for when you teach writing–it just doesn't always happen.

It was a small class-sixteen ...