Thread by @gauravsabnis

It's that time of the year when I cry happy tears because students write stuff like this. 😭😭😭

This cohort, this covid cohort, it's going to be special. Forever. ♥️♥️♥️

I'm gonna cry buckets at this graduation.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

You know the ultimate irony? The most memorable class of my career so far, these young folks I was bonded to through these rough times, I mostly knew as black rectangles and then hair and eyes with masks. I can recognize most of them of course. Currently. But still, I wonder...

I wonder, when I run into them years later and they say "Professor Sabnis! Remember me?", will I still remember their faces, given that I hardly saw their faces in the last 2.5 years?

And yet I feel like I know them better than any students I've known.

In our school, unofficially,

Sabnis minor - taking all 4 undergrad courses I teach.

We have many of them every year.

But what if you take all my UG courses AND my grad course? Only @Jenn_Fatale had done it until now.

This cohort, we have 12! Who took 5 courses from me!

There were 12 who sat through 4 of my courses, many over zoom cramped in some room with their family, and yet in their final semester, the #senioritis semester, decided, hey, why don't I also take a 600 level course by Sabnis?🤔

So many dad jokes & obscure pop culture tangents!

Whenever I hear someone complaining about the values and work ethic of young people today, I think ah, there goes someone who doesn't know too many young people today.

I teach young people for a living. They are the best! They kept smiling through random "camera on" diktats!

"Your compassion and positive influence does not go unnoticed" is literally the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.