Thurs, 15th Oct 2015, 22:36 Sorry to SPAM all of you, but ...
My students, Sorry for spamming all of you, but I feel I should do this in order to publically apologize to a student in the class who sent me email that I inadvertently copied you all on. The student's email was one of many that I regularly receive from students when they successfully get their first program running. It is always one of exhileration, and in fact is a joy to receive. I intended to share it with my TAs, since I think they would have also enjoyed it. Instead I mistakenly bcc-ed it to the class. Since I had not intended to send it to all of you, I did not delete his identity, and likely embarrassed him. I would never want to embarrass a student, and so I feel disappointment in myself for doing so. This has happened only twice in the 16 years I have been at UT, twice too many times as far as I am concerned. So I deeply apologize to the student who feels great happiness in completing lab 1, and I hope he was not too embarrassed by my unwittingly sharing his email with the rest of the class. The fact is, it is not the only letter I got this week like this, and I think his positive emotion is a good thing, and beautifully captured the spirit of all the emails I received from students who passed the first midterm last week. However, it was private, and I am very unhappy with myself when I divulge private emails. I apologize. Yale Patt