After more than 30 years of teaching at the college level—and the past 13 at Flathead Valley Community College—I’ve come to believe that one of the privileges of this work is noticing patterns that only reveal themselves over time.No two students are the same, and no group can be reduced to a single story. What follows is simply an observation from my own classroom, shaped by the students I’ve had the opportunity to teach here in the Flathead Va…