ABOUT THE AUTHOR My career has been characterized by me immersing myself in each student academically, as well as into their personal lives, if asked by them. I found that personal counseling was an integral component of academic counseling. Allowing myself to see students as the most important people on earth, and treating them accordingly, provided an entirely new range of teaching possibilities, because they then actively chose to engage themselves with me. It was the personal interactions and individual help sessions, encouraged by the nearly 24 hour continuous interactions with students i...