The first week of the fall semester is in the books.  It was All Right.  I enjoy teaching, and most of the time, I think, that joy comes through.  In any case, I am always so pleased to meet my students, and they usually seem pleased to meet me too. A few of them were less than thrilled with my new electronics policy, and I expected that.  But I tried to frame it for them as I see it myself:  as a way of carving out, in a culture of constant surveillance and instant critique, a block of time and Read more