Comments from Tiffany Flesher 4 May 2015


From Tiffany Flesher

Doc Martin,
Really really sad this class is over. I enjoyed having you as a professor this past year and a half, but I want you to know I consider you a friend.  Thank you for being my listening in ear in times that I needed it the most. One of the best parts about you (not only your teaching style) is your ability to make people feel like they are important and not just another face in the crowd. I also appreciate your lack of judgement.   Your strength this semester with all that happened in your own life was inspiring. More than anything, thank you for making me feel like I could still do this at 30 years old. I will TRULY miss giving you hell in class.


                                              Basically, you are awesome!


                                                    Tiffany

P.s.  I know how uncomfortable you get with mushy stuff like this from your students (and I’m laughing at how uncomfortable you probably are right now)...but, just take it. You deserve it.
To Tiffany,
I suppose that the learning experience we've both have over the past two (!) years is more symbiotic than as in any way a mentor, which I rarely feel I could be pretend. If we're moment a praise others, I have always, always enjoyed our tete-a-tete conversations. Even back to ENGL 1301 and your ... then hesitance ... then bold .... then frustration ... to Queen of Honors and since then, you have been one the gem of students that all professors pray for. Yes, I learned you as a friend a long, long time ago, though of course I have my invulnerability to keep appearances as. I sincerely hope we stay friends and help each other -- as colleagues, and as challengers. 

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And I hope you kick the hell out of every class and every college professor. 


PS: “Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.” P Freire Language Arts​, 1985.

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