In Praise of "Old" - Front Porch Republic

In Praise of "Old" - Front Porch Republic

Recently I was working on a compulsory annual self-evaluation at my college. No good can come from such an undertaking: modesty renders your account of yourself unimpressive, or your account of yourself renders you vain and egotistical, or at least a suck-up. One question asked about my development as a professional—or, rather, about my Professional Development—during the last year. I dutifully described an online Old English course I’d been tak…