Mysterious Student Messages

The Twilight Zone

...of student emails.

(Image from Wikipedia)

"You are about to enter another dimension, .... the middle ground between light and shadow, .... an area which we call ... the Twilight Zone."

I sometimes think of Rod Serling's words when I open student emails, for I can find myself lost in a twilight realm. For example, here's an email that confronted me at three o'clock this morning:

Good evening professor.

I'm a student of your class, and have a request that may I have a handout file by this e-mail please?

Thank you and see you tommorow morning.

P.S.: Your teaching is so sensible that I was very interested last class which was my first class.

This email apparently comes from an appreciative student, one who likes my 'sensible teaching', but it provides no student name, no course title, and no identification of the desired 'handout file'. It's even less enlightening than the email that I commented upon five days ago.

Thus am I "here in the twilight, here in the twi-i-i-i-light, twilight zone..."