Partners meet halfway: a simple correlation study of an undergrad lab class

Last semester I taught two classes of an Introductory Physics (Electrodynamics) for Engineers lab course at the University of Texas at Austin. The first day that my students came in, most of them did not know each other. They just came in and sat at tables of two, and this pretty much became their permanent …

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Fever

I’ve never had hallucinations before when I was sick. Some invisible form was holding my knees, my feet, pulling them, dragging me slowly by my legs downwards. It was so real. And I knew that the more I let myself float into these imaginings the more real and physical they would become, the more inescapable. …

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