One of the luxuries of teaching in a very small liberal arts college was that I was able to offer lots of individual studies to help students explore their interests. Sometimes that meant adapting a course I had previously taught elsewhere to the needs of a student (“The Pursuit of Happiness,” for instance, was an intellectual and cultural history course I had developed as a lecture course at the University of Adelaide; a Quest student persuaded me to work with her to do it as a tutorial). Most of the time, that meant working with a student (or sometimes a group of five or six students) to create a course that filled a gap in our curriculum. These courses were intense, demanding, and hugely rewarding for me; I hope my students got as much out of these courses as I did.