My Professor was on The Daily Show

Every once in a while, when I'm trying to distract myself from thinking about my upcoming surgery, I'll google a name of someone from the past and see what comes up. 

Today I found this:

Lee Gutkind is one of my professors from the University of Pittsburgh.  His classes and his writing style fascinated me.  Every time I scheduled my next semester, I would try to take something he was teaching.  When all was said and done, I believe he was responsible for giving me about 13 credits or so of very well deserved A's. 

I interned for him at his then newly created journal called Creative Nonfiction.  In fact, Creative Nonfiction turned into my first job out of college, where I worked an an assistant editor.  This man could research the hell out of just about any topic, write about it, and make it interesting. 

He used to take essays I had written and cross off the entire first three pages to show me where my story should start.  I would initially want to cry, after all that work that I had put into my writing; but then I would read the finished result in front of the class and watch their reactions. I knew it was good because people sat there nodding their heads as I read.

Just about everything that is good about my writing, I learned from him.  How cool is it that my professor was on The Daily Show!?!   

Comments

[Steve]

Pretty cool. Jon Stewart seems like a really cool guy.