Being youngish and teaching college composition creates a whole bunch of weird situations and teacher-student interactions. One of my favorite versions of these is the awkward period at the beginning of the quarter when my students try to figure out what to call me. (The fact that I sign all my communications with them “Emily” doesn’t seem to register.)
Things My Students Have Called Me So Far This Quarter
Had an interesting discussion with MM tonight: we put together our Top 10 Movies of the Decade lists. The big question, of course, is how to balance personal preference (just plain liking the film) with critical knowledge (cinematography, editing, direction, casting, acting, etc.), and we wound up concluding that the single most important factor in defining our number ones was our life situation at the time.
Must be depressing to be a filmmaker, subject to the whims of fickle viewers whose assessment of the movie ultimately depends on something totally external to that movie.
Here’s my list.*
* After our discussion, in which we made our cases for why those movies should be included, I changed this list a little. This is the newest version.
