Lucky Me.

I also had the opportunity at Northwestern to study -- or more properly, to learn how to read* -- Nabakov under the late professor Alfred Appel.**

With quarters, instead of semesters, there is an opportunity to concentrate more fully on a few courses, in a lesser period of time. I simply signed up for the authors, the class topics; it's only in looking back, that I realize my timing enabled me access to some of the greats.

Not to mention the outside speakers schools like that can bring in. Free. Included in your student fees cover charge.

(Don't let them tell you all Gen X'ers on were necessarily gypped of a "true" university education. It was still there, for the asking and taking.*** Of course, our football teams were marshmallows back then. Fun enough. Balance, people, balance... )
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* a lifelong skill you can take with you, long after the last bluebook final has been closed.

** Great class; no, he was always on time.
(Nevermind... )

***  Macroeconomics -- more than one quarter, even -- with economics professor Bob Gordon:

Northwestern economist Robert J. Gordon argues that the United States should get ready for an extended period of slowing growth, with economic expansion getting ever more sluggish and the bottom 99 percent getting the short end of the (ever-slower-growing) stick.

“A provocative ‘exercise in subtraction’ suggests that future growth in consumption per capita for the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution could fall below 0.5 percent per year for an extended period of decades,” he writes. ...

“Doubling the standard of living took five centuries between 1300 and 1800. Doubling accelerated to one century between 1800 and 1900. Doubling peaked at a mere 28 years between 1929 and 1957 and 31 years between 1957 and 1988.”

“But then doubling is predicted to slow back to a century again between 2007 and 2100.”

Doubling down, doh.