Heartening

I’ve been doing this activity where we meet incoming students and hawk our programs to them for 6 years. And this was the first year when several students stopped me right after I started waxing lyrical about the benefits of our language courses and said, “I’m interested in literature. Language is great but I want to study literature.” Usually, we lure students in with language and then spring literature on them. But things seem to be changing, and that’s very heartening. Maybe we will soon be able to stop apologizing for doing literary studies.