So today was my first day of class with only one class: "Quantitative Phys". I didn't think too much of the class, except that the class syllabus seemed very familiar to a class that I took in undergrad at Johns Hopkins. The class there was called "Physiological Foundations" or Phys Found, for short.

We walk in and the professor starts talking about how hard the class is going to be if you've never had any physiology background. Then in the middle of the class he says that we're going to have a pop quiz to see what our physiology background is. Now, usually this is a normal in an engineering overview class because you've got people from all different academic backgrounds and so these kinds of surveys are given on the first day of class so the professor can gauge where everyone is and then he/she can structure the class accordingly. But as he's handing out the quizzes, he says, "Be sure to put your name on the quiz. These will count for a grade."

What?!

Okay fine, I think to myself. It can't be that bad. Oh, but it was. There were 20 questions on the quiz. I think I only got 2 of them remotely correct. And that's only because I guessed at them. I was sitting next to someone and I could kinda hear her chuckling as we were taking the quiz. After the quiz I asked her what she was laughing about and she said that she had NO idea what the answers to those things were. For both of us it had been about 5 years since we took undergraduate physiology. Oh well.