Yesterday I received the sweetest gift of all:  two of my deans wrote me a formal letter of "heartfelt appreciation," with cc's to my department chair and my DUS, letting me know that my teaching evaluations from last spring's "This Is Your Brain on the Internet," were among the "top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke."  That blew me away.   For about a minute.  And then I began to wonder (and put this in my letter back to my deans), what does it mean that a prof who has become infamous for a blog about "how to crowdsource grading" is beaming with joy that she got a great grade?   Methinks it's time for a blog!

Who knew that letter grades began being assigned at Mt Holyoke and then five years later someone decided it was such a good idea that it was time to start assigning letter grades to grades and cuts of meat.     Now that's a metaphor!