It was the fall of 1978, my son was five years old and my daughter 8. They were “knee high to a grasshopper” as they say in Arklahoma. I was attending Central State University, since renamed to the University of Central Oklahoma. I was majoring in Biology.
Why Biology? First I had a real love for the science. Secondly, I had always done well in this branch of the sciences. I had basically been forced into a business degree program my first year of college and nearly flunked out. It was a lack of interest and other factors (partying???). In retrospect I might have better served myself and my family to have gotten my computer science degree at that time rather than the B.S. in Biology. The punch cards intimidated me, and at time I had doubts about my intellectual capacity. Dissecting struck me as easier than flow charts. Plus, I’ve made a real study of coming to the fork in the road and taking the wrong tine.
This particular semester I was taking several courses, but Mammalogy 4263 taught by Dr. Caire is of interest here. Dr. Caire had his M.S. in rats, and his PhD Continue reading “Skinning Rats”