AN INTERESTING WRITING ASSIGNMENT
At this moment, I am half-way through my 42 nd year as a college professor. Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. I walk back into class to see if I can do it all again. This semester, I have 28 students in one Intermediate Accounting II class and 26 students in another Intermediate class. I also have 15 students taking my Governmental Accounting course. I have an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of these 69 young people. Hopefully, that will be a positive difference. That is not a responsibility that I take lightly. Whether each of these students is better off on the last day of the semester depends in large part on how well I do my job. After all this time, I am still thrilled when I think about going into class and leading the conversation. I never fail to get a stomach full of butterflies before the first class. You could describe my feel...