Anime Club sponsors “Letter to Sensei”

By Yibing Liu | Published March 13, 2023

Kean’s Anime Society provided students with colorful papers and pens to express appreciation to their professors at its “Letters to Sensei” event.

The event, hosted in the Miron Student Center on Feb.17, allowed students to emphasize and highlight the admiration and respect they have for their professors’ dedication to students and their academics and faculty and staff for their hard work. 

Attendees could sign the letters anonymously or they could sign with their names. Members of the Anime Society would then deliver the letters directly to each professor, faculty, and staff member. 

 “We want to do a little bit to show appreciation to some professors, staff, and faculties here …we want to give back to say thank you to show our gratitude,” said Mallissa Wright, a junior majoring in communication and Kean Anime Society vice president.

Though it rained heavily outside the MSC and there was minimal traffic in the atrium, she was very enthusiastic and actively introduced the various materials of the event.

Some students forget to convey their appreciation unconsciously and some students are too shy to express their emotions face-to-face to faculties. The event gave students like Yiming Cui, a junior majoring in Mathematics, valuable chances.

“I saw the big flyer there and I remembered that I had a sweet professor last semester, I really appreciate his care,” Cui said. 

Olivia Cornwell, Anime Club president and a senior majoring in Communication,  said her communication professors are supportive and act like her parents supporting her and assisting her with her academics. 

“The nicest and sweetest thing is to see they are open up to how many professors and to see how long letters are, how kind they are,” Cornwell said. “Because we don’t really say upfront, ‘I appreciate you,’ so give them backup opportunities to do so even if they don’t want to write their names.” 

The heavy rain outside gradually stopped, but the appreciation for the faculty and staff will continue.

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