In many respects (coughadministrativegoalscough), Coe is just another four-year liberal arts college. In one respect, it is like no other college on earth, and that is THE WRITING CENTER. Coe’s writing center is incredible. With the goal of helping people communicate to their intended audiences (rather than just correcting grammar or spelling), the writing center works with students, professors, and anyone else who wanders in to generate, expand upon, consider, outline, draft, reexamine, revise, reorganise, and/or polish just about any kind of writing a writer can think up, not to mention the essays one has to do for class.

Working there during my college years wasn’t just a highly entertaining course in words and working with words and writers – it changed how I view my life. I can’t explain how he did it, but director Dr. Robert Marrs somehow taught me to be comfortable with the idea that what I do is an ongoing project, what I choose affects my relationships with the world, what I think is constantly under revision – and it’s all cool. The journey is what matters in the end.

Dr. Bob rules. And the CWC staff. And the coffee.