Dear New College Student

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2. good anecdotes!

I've got a bunch of them. Many of them involve unfortunate mis-spellings (e.g. using "worm" instead of "warm" when asked whether dinosaurs were warm or cold blooded; "a long, gated" instead of "elongated&quot .

In the fall, I ask students to put some vertebrates on an evolutionary tree. I've generally included a celebrity who recently passed away as the token mammal. One year, that token mammal was George Harrison, who had just died. Two students asked me, "wasn't he in some band?"