In Sociology of Health and Illness, there are two types of students. The sociology kids interested in the sociology part, or because they need credits for their majors. Soc kids are loquacious, sensitive to injustices, and generally fears science (stats are ok, but pushing it, but no other math and certainly no molecules). Then there are the pre-med kids, who need a social science course but still wants to focus on medicine. These kids write papers that are dull and difficult to edit, and would rather do problem sets than summarize a book. Once in awhile, you get a kid whose interests are so perfectly melded into the course that they straddle between both groups, like Awong. Or yours truly. This story is not about those kids. You can decide for yourself which group this following girl belongs in.
So we're discussing standards in class and giving examples of them. Someone motions the thermostat and the professor, the sketchball drawing one henceforce known as "The Sketch," uses it to illustrate her point...
The Sketch: Ok, so this says 74.5. What does that mean?
Class: Temperature.
The Sketch: There's this little 'F' here, what does that mean?
Girl: Degrees?
No. It doesn't.
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