Perhaps I spoke too soon, re: guest speakers. Our second substitute professor for Genetics was nice enough, but clearly terrified of us. I can’t blame him; I don’t have any particular public speaking phobia, but I’m sure that faced with an auditorium of two or three hundred students I’d get a little nervous, too. He’d prepared a lecture and PowerPoint presentation intended to last the full class time, but ended up talking so quickly that he finished his last slide in just about forty minutes. He assaulted us with a barrage of auto-immune disorders and some very convoluted explanation having to do with plasma, and then suddenly it was all over. We were left gaping and confused, with unintelligible half-pages of scribbled terms we didn’t have time to copy from his diagrams. It was almost like that post-car-accident feeling - what? I’m missing how many limbs? But I was just on my way to Stop N Shop for some Kraft dinner!