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This course is in its twilight, and I wanted to share some thoughts with you right before the screen goes down.

It can appear, and in fact it will to those of you who did not speak with me recently, that I have abandoned you in the last few weeks. Nothing can be further than the truth. Since week 4 I have been curbing my enthusiasm and participation in the threads, both academic and Larry David (i.e. incendiary) styles.

This is the first time that I teach a DuPont cohort. Earlier this semester I have been warned that some of these cohorts become aggressive, unsupportive and non-responsive, on the other hand I heard that in some rare cases these cohorts are far superior than any other we have in Drexel. It is my firm belief that you belong in the second group. From the start this cohort has been engaging and thoughtful. Moreover, you have grasped the notion that higher quality is far superior to quantity. The initial posts in the threads and the reactions to them were both thoughtful and thought provoking. While a casual external observer might say there was a decline towards t...

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