Trauma - the best inspiration!

What is Mendel’s law of segregation?
A 12 cm by 18 cm picture is enlarged to 4 times its area. What are the new dimensions?
State how prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells differ …..

How many times have I stared at my test paper stumped by the very first question? Stumped is an understatement. Trembling, sweating, unblinking tormented soul reduced to a pathetic nonentity of dust particle is more like it. Writing and erasing an answer so many number of times… fidget… scratch head… what the heck… hmm this will do… drat! I erased a hole in my answer sheet!

For those of you who have those superb science/math oriented grey cells, get this – you’ll never ever begin to understand the trauma and bewilderment a pure arts brain goes through when it sees a science/math paper. When the paper asks me to solve a sum using …


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