So, I have a quiz this morning in bacterial genetics on gene mapping (sort of). Basically, Dr. H wants us to tell him what media we would have to use if we wanted to grow bacteria with certain traits. He only gave us one example, and I've looked at it several times. Both the example and his explanation in class seemed pretty straight forward. In a minute, I'm going to leaf through my textbook to see if there are any other examples I should look at. However, the problem with Dr. H is that he wants very specific answers, and also, sometimes when he tells you a quiz or a test will be on a certain topic, he'll add questions that are not related to that topic, just to see if you have been keeping up. I have no idea what he might ask in addition to these media-select problems, and I have a vague feeling that the problems may not be as straight forward as his example. He's that kind of professor. Still, other than reviewing the one example he gave us, and looking for others in the the text, I really don't know what else I could do to prepare. I understand the concept, so hopefully I will do okay on the quiz. Dr. H's quizzes scare me more than his tests. LOL. What else do I have to do today? Hmmm... I need to get Doc satellite images of the places we want to sample, I need to do a gram stain of the cultures I streaked Friday, and possible re-streak if I get anything interesting... I need to grade some quizzes so I can start on the lab reports my students turned in two weeks ago (yeah, I procrastinate when it comes to grading), and I need to find the rubric that we're all supposed to use to grade the lab reports. Oy vey. I hate grading! But I guess it's a small price to pay for students who are actually a pleasure to teach. I'll let you know how the quiz goes. Pray for me! ~H