Dear Maggie,

When are you finished with school? How was your semester?

Sincerely,

Scholar in Skokie

Dear Scholar,

I just turned in my last assignment for the year yesterday, and the semester officially ends this week. My first full year of grad school is in the books, and, wow, it was a busy, challenging, creative, productive year! This semester alone, we read about twelve novels and wrote discussion board posts for each of them, we were assigned seven creative writing exercises, penned two short st...