Teaching Biology Lab

Tomorrow morning I am starting to teach again. Only the lab this time around, my colleague is teaching the lecture. And it is going to look pretty much the same as last couple of times I did it:

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Oy Vey. I'm a first generation American Jewish Atheist with parents who were born in Prague and I'm a grad student in environmental sciences after two decades in clinical laboratory medicine. And I am teaching at a community college for my tuition.

My students know to settle down when I mutter "Uz mam dost."