KENT \u2013 When Professor Peter Graham of the chemistry department offered a model class in \u201cThe Chemistry of Grass Growing\u201d this Family Weekend, he wasn\u2019t expecting to find friendship with two of the parents in attendance. Mark and Eliza Crawford of Ojai, California, enjoyed Graham\u2019s lecture so much that they went out to lunch with him afterward. They even stayed on as model TAs for the next day\u2019s model section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had never thought of grass growing as being so fascinating!\u201d Eliza gushed as she cleaned Graham\u2019s chalkboard. \u201cAnd he had never met anyone who found<\/em> his subject so important and interesting. It was just an instant connection. We\u2019re having him over for Thanksgiving this year. And to think our daughter told us he was a bad professor!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe chemistry department told me to do this model class that was \u2018conveniently\u2019 at the same time as our department meeting, where they were planning to vote on which professors would have to teach Gen-Chem next year,\u201d Graham told the Dealer<\/em>. \u201cSo now I\u2019m teaching Gen-Chem, but at least Mark and Eliza are organizing a protest against that grave injustice in the UChicago Parents Facebook group.\u201d Graham teared up as he added, \u201cNo one else has ever actually listened to me when I speak.\u201d Or something like that\u2013our interviewer had stopped paying attention by that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only person unhappy with the sudden friendship is first-year Tori Crawford, Mark and Eliza\u2019s daughter and a current student in Professor Graham\u2019s Chemistry of Big Problems class. \u201cProfessor Graham is evil<\/em>. His midterm was 100 questions long and weighted at 45% of the grade. Plus, his labs are, like, four hours long, minimum. I only sent my parents to his model class so I\u2019d have time to finish my p-set. And now he\u2019s coming to Thanksgiving? I just hope he likes beta-mercaptoethanol in his cranberry sauce\u2026\u201d The Shady Dealer<\/em> wishes the Crawford family and Professor Graham a happy Thanksgiving and does not assume liability in the event of Professor Graham\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI had never thought of grass growing as being so fascinating!\u201d Eliza gushed as she cleaned Graham\u2019s chalkboard. \u201cAnd he had never met anyone who found his subject so important and interesting. It was just an instant connection. We\u2019re having him over for Thanksgiving this year. And to think our daughter told us he was a bad professor!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}