A good laugh

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I have the best students in the world. End of story. This morning, one of them gave me a good laugh, which by the way, I badly needed.
Right after I finished my 8am pharmacology class I have office hours. Today, one of my students went to see me. Their first exam is coming up and they all are a little jittery. I do understand; I am still an unknown quantity for them since they have no idea of how my exams look like.
Anyway, she was rather worried and it showed. She expressed her concern about understanding the material and at a certain point in the conversation, she suddenly said something in the lines of “Doctor, I am freaking out… Just look at my notes!”
And she showed me her notebook.
And that’s when I laughed.
Loud.
Happily.
Heartily.
Here’s why:
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I blurred part of the not-so-nice words for your benefit. I kindly thank the student for allowing me to take a picture of her notebook and post it here.
Also, I am happy to report that I did explained the competition curves concept in detail to her and by the time she left my office she was much calmer… (:-D)
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I am a husband, a father of three, and a baldie, who also happens to be a pretty good (I hope) University Professor and Researcher. My undergraduate degree is in General Science, and my MS is in Biochemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico. My PhD is in Pharmacology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, from Cornell University. I love science! (do I really need to say it?) In this blog, I mainly talk about science, especially to non-scientists, but from time to time I explore topics like how is it like to raise a boy with autism, science fiction, education, etc. I am usually able to give these and other topics a scientific twist. I also blog about my favorite (non-human) types of organisms, the flatworms, especially planarians. I use planarians as animal models in pharmacology. If you’d like to see my papers so far, click here. Even though I am well published in scientific journals, I got the popular science writing bug relatively recently. I am a scientist who writes, and I have published three book so far. I hope you enjoy my posts. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, my wife, my children, my parents & siblings, or Chuck Darwin…

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  1. As a current MSc student, I have definitely gone to one or two professors and said “Hi, I think I just broke my brain, can you help unconfuse me?” Most of the time I have left with the confusion lifted, although, I get the feeling my thesis supervisor sometimes gets more confused than me when I try to explain my “logic” 🙂

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