Just got a text from an alum who is about to be awarded her J.D. at Georgetown today. I’m so honored that she took the time to text me and to thank me for teaching her as an undergrad.

She was my T.A. for a semester when she was studying for the LSAT. No, I don’t have funds to hire teaching assistants. Instead, I created an independent study for her, and every week I took her out to breakfast before class so we could strategize how to teach well and how she could learn from the experience. It was a class on “sustainable entrepreneurship,” combining philosophy, ethics, law, and practical problem-solving. She was wonderful. And still is.

And yeah, I might be crying a little right now, with joy and pride at what she had done.