The Tangled Bank has grown so huge that apparently we now need a whole polytechnic university to handle it. Appropriately enough, I'm not on the academic faculty—I'm down in the health services clinic, checking out genitals.
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Don't sell yourself short. Parasite screening is very important. Besides, would you rather be lecturing the frat-boys with GrrlScientist?
Hey, I wasn't selling myself short -- I think it's cool.
Wait until they see my bedside manner, though…I would make House look like a teddy bear.
At least you are not reduced to selling caps and gowns.
But that's where the graduating seniors really seem to think that cranial capacity matters!