Hi Connal, You make a number of very good points about getting to know students and their backgrounds. Your one comment about the fact that all of your experiences are not limited just to your field of expertise. Students continue to be surprised when they find out that their instructor has a family, hobbies, frustrations, challenges and all the other things in life that everyone faces. They seem to thing we live in boxes between classes and come out only to teach and then dart back into the box. It is good for them to know such things about us. We can do such without revealing too much of our personal lives. Gary