Post something positive that happened today

[Wang Mandu]

I just lectured to a class with 740 students and I didn't even puke

Man I get nervous when it's more than 30 and the 30 are all elementary school kids. I can't imagine a uni class size that big, especially just lecturing. Nice work. At least with kids there are activities to trick them into learning.

[elephants gerald]

basically Bio 101... which is fucking complicated compared to when I took it, or maybe UC Berkeley is just a bit more hardcore. I just talked about life and water and elements today but have to describe all the biomolecules to them on Friday - boss will be back next week

I think it's probably not just berkeley. I only took bio 101 around 3 years ago, and it was an EXTREMELY dense course. the amount of time we spent on cell components, division, and cellular respiration was not tremendous...and the amount of time we spent on taxonomy and basic evolutionary biology was pretty insignificant. I had never taken a college bio course before this one, but I gather that that stuff used to be the core of the course. we spent a lot of time on ATP synthase, bacteriophage mechanisms, memorizing a ton of signal cascades, and relatively heavy genetics stuff (in a first-semester lab we introduced green fluorescent proteins into bacterial DNA with pGLO plasmids). that class was an intimidating introduction. it also ruled.

also ross!

[Necrometer]

thanks much, dudes!

...the amount of time we spent on taxonomy and basic evolutionary biology was pretty insignificant. I had never taken a college bio course before this one, but I gather that that stuff used to be the core of the course.

yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. it's kind of cool in a lot of ways, just a huge departure from what "biology" was at the turn of the century

[Necrometer]

taught again today (boss will be back monday) and got a pretty big laugh when I dropped the reveal on how I like to remember the stereochemistry of glucose in Fischer projection...

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1 jokes only people who went to chemistry class will understand

[Geeheeb]

if you flip around to the student perspective, is it still funny?

[Necrometer]

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not sure if that was just a you-playing-dumb joke about mirror symmetry or not, but if not: it all works out great since I was pantomiming offering a hug, then noted that I didn't have enough arms to represent things correctly, and then blew their minds when I revealed the caterpillar

it will be on youtube in the next few hours so I might upload with timestamps for that and for the moment when people gasped at molecular modeling software doing what could only be interpreted as magic by their fragile minds

[Geeheeb]

haha that context does make it very funny.

i really liked og chem but it was hard for me. i worked my butt off and only got a 3.0. i did break my collar bone halfway through the semester and was on drugs the whole time though.

[hipster holocaust]

Ross making all the nubile panties wet with corny geek jokes

[bland ed]

i rotated that shit pretty easily in my head and i still don't get the joke. splain!

edit: i'll wait for the video. don't splain yet!

[Necrometer]

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OK, class time!

[redacted content - PM if curious!]

for the record, I do not in any way think I did a great job overall, especially towards the end when I went ultra-fast since time was running out.

[Geeheeb]

they clapped. i never clapped ever, ever for a lecture even if i loved it. ever.

has to be worth somethin

[elephants gerald]

only clapped for a professor once ever. it was at the end of this tiny plato course in the school's basement, and the professor was this totally bizarre, genius mystic. I've never considered it otherwise

[Zap Rowsdower]

I'm very surprised that when Ross went to show an image from a different window there wasn't an open thread from the board on screen.

[bland ed]

awwwww ross is a cute sweetheart in real life

your joke brightened up my day

[riley-o]

Ross

[THE KILL]

Good for you, Ross. Speaking in front of a bigger audience for the first time is a frightening experience for most people.

[elephants gerald]

just got MAGMA tickets for april

[Necrometer]

thanks for support, dudes! I am earnestly confused by the clapping; I thought maybe it was just a first day thing but I reviewed by boss's lectures from previous years and there was not a sound other than the rustling of liberated students

my boss is back and I just checked out the end of that lecture from yesterday - a smattering of applause! maybe it's a millennial thing...

[THE KILL]

thanks for support, dudes! I am earnestly confused by the clapping; I thought maybe it was just a first day thing but I reviewed by boss's lectures from previous years and there was not a sound other than the rustling of liberated students

my boss is back and I just checked out the end of that lecture from yesterday - a smattering of applause! maybe it's a millennial thing...

everybody just wanted to get in your pants

[Erik13]

Found out that my company is getting the distribution rights to Corona in April.

[hipster holocaust]

Tell them to hook you up so you can stop drinking absolute piss beer and start drinking moderate piss beer

[Whee of the Dead]

Spent my birthday with some friends at the bar blasting Autopsy and Megadeth while downing Jameson.

Got some burritos and ate 'em in the theater watching A Most Violent Year which was a fine 70's styled crime flick.

[BUNGVOX]

found out today my new supervisor is going to get her ass reamed for being a rude bitch.

[hipster holocaust]

Higher bonus than next paycheck

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If I could only decide what the fuck to get the better half with it for Vday

[Erik13]

Higher bonus than next paycheck

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If I could only decide what the fuck to get the better half with it for Vday

A nice assortment of nuts.