Student evaluations of college courses and college professors are highly subjective. They’ve also been shown to be riddled with gender, racial, nationality, class, language, and other forms of bias.
Nevertheless, here are a couple of my favorite “saved student comments”. Feel free to take my courses; I’d be happy to advise, teach, and work with you, too!
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“Thank you for being an amazing advisor!”
“I want to let you know how much I appreciate everything you’ve done for me this year. Your kindness, patience, and dedication have made a real difference in my learning and personal growth. I’m truly thankful for the extra time and effort you put into answering my questions, offering advice, and guiding me in my studies.”
“I just want to thank you for an amazing semester in Intro! I am honestly amazed at how much I learned. I’m so grateful to have this strong foundation in the discipline my first year, so I can apply my sociological imagination in the rest of my classes & college experience.”
“Wow! It was incredible seeing you there at the award ceremony. Introduction to Sociology was a defining course for me — it affirmed that I wanted to be a sociology major! Thank you so much for your encouragement as a professor, and for doing so much for the Tufts community in supporting all of your students.”
“I wanted to reach out and thank you for instructing me this semester, and this seems like a perfect time to do so. I had a lovely time learning from you and my peers, and this class has made me even more excited about pursing my sociology major. I’m very much so looking forward to taking more classes with you in the future!”
“This research experience has been the most influential of my life, I have learned so incredibly much and am so inspired. Thank you so much for all the support over the years. None of this could have ever happened without your guidance.”
“I wanted to thank you for such a wonderful semester in your class. I would say that out of all the classes I have taken at Tufts, I have never felt so accomplished and proud of the work that I have completed as I did in your class. I hope you enjoy the final product!”
“Not only was your class extremely interesting and engaging, it was also so comforting to feel like my professor truly cared about our class and the people in it.”
“Thank you so much for your quick grading and thoughtful comments. I have really enjoyed this course and have appreciated your teaching style – very organized, thorough, and also compassionate! I have learned a ton.”
“Thank you for giving us so many comments on our final papers–with a lot of professors, we never see our finals again, and I really appreciated it.”
“I just took your Introduction to Sociology Course last semester, and I just wanted to tell you that the material I learned in your class has been so helpful in regard to my summer internship. I’m working as an intern at the Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute Center for Community Based Research for the summer, and I cannot stress enough how useful your lectures and readings have been. I am constantly going back to your lectures and readings (which I saved!) to help me with my job, and I just wanted to thank you for all of the resources you provided in the class and for everything that you taught me about the topic.”
“I just want to deeply thank you for everything you did for me. I am so grateful to have had you as an advisor who always kept me on track and checked into reality in truly some of the most chaotic moments of my time at Tufts. Wishing you well always!”
“I want to thank you for such an amazing semester. As a graduating senior and pre-med student, this has been my first and only sociology course I’ve taken at Tufts and I’m so glad I took it. I learned so much and this class really made me reflect on my privilege and the ways I want to work towards a more equal and accepting society. The final paper was one of my favorite projects I’ve participated in at Tufts and I know I will be looking back on that interview many times in the future.”
“This has been a wonderful class, and I am jealous of the freshman sociologists that get to take more classes with you.”
“I wanted to express my gratitude for the Return Migration to Mexico class and all that I took away from it. Your teaching style, enthusiasm, and support for students, along with your expertise in the field, are a large part of why I am especially grateful for the opportunity to learn about the topic under your guidance. I feel more knowledgeable and aware of the happenings of the world after taking your class, and truly that is all I could ever ask for. However, I also rediscovered my love of reading, critical thinking, and immersing myself in the history that forms our world at present! I hope that classes like Return Migration to Mexico continue to be taught at Tufts and that book club lives on. I am currently enrolled in the Sociology of Latinxs course taught by you in the fall, and needless to say, I look forward to learning from you again.”
“I hope this email finds you and your family well. I have (almost) graduated and am now living in San Diego. Looking around me and reading the news I realize that my perspective on immigration/immigrants has changed after having taken your class. I think about it often and thought I should let you know how thankful I am for it. Not only is immigration very close to home for me but I also think it is a very important topic to have awareness of in the world we live in. Thank you for being a good teacher :)”
“Thank you for the kind words and constructive comments. Your class was unlike any other I’ve taken at Tufts, and it has stimulated my thinking about a variety of social and political topics in a way that will stay with me for a long time.”
“I just wanted to email you to let you know about some exciting news- On a whim (and without telling anyone!) I submitted the qualitative research paper that I wrote while in India to a call for papers and the Human Development Conference at Notre Dame has invited me to present my research in February! I wanted to share this news with you because I really feel that I have you to thank for where I am today. I would not have had a clue what I was doing when I was there (we had a methodology class but it was very basic and I felt so ahead of the game) and having such a solid foundation in the methodology really allowed me to focus on the data without getting overwhelmed in the process. I am so thankful for having taken your class and you have been such an incredible mentor throughout this whole process.”
“Thank you for the comments, they’re really helpful as I try to formulate my final paper thoughts! This class has been so extremely rewarding this semester and I have so many useful skills now, thank you so much for making this class so amazing and very educational yet super interesting! I really appreciate how much time you take to give feedback to everyone, the guidance and help is really different from a lot of other classes I’ve taken.”
“Every teacher I have makes me more grateful for the way you conducted your class when were sent home during Spring [of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic]. You were so kind, so understanding, and knew that what was happening was not normal. I remember the word you used vividly: sacrifice. That our generation was making a large sacrifice, something that was never recognized by my other professors. You understood that this time is not easy, and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart. It is so easy to forget the gravity of the moment, but that was something you always remembered.”
“I’d just like to thank you, Professor, for all the work that you have put in with the Sociology course as a whole this semester. The class is SUPER interesting while also being manageable, fun, and not overly stressful, which is the perfect combination for a class in COVID times. Thank you, I really appreciate your efforts, and I know that every other student in the class does as well.”
“My Tufts career would truly not be the same without you—thank you for believing in my abilities and putting your faith in me. As I look forward to graduation, I am so glad to have been under your supervision and tutelage!”