https://ganbar.us/series/how-tyren-and-paul-met/ Recent content in How Tyren and Paul Met on The Barker Ganssle Family Hugo en-us Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:08:32 -0500 https://ganbar.us/posts/the-proposal/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:08:32 -0500 https://ganbar.us/posts/the-proposal/ <p>Back in the distant past (Fall 2007), I was a supplemental instructor (SI)<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> for Chemistry 475 (Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy). I was also <em>far</em> too cool for school and fancied myself an iconoclast, so when I had to go to a training for new SIs, I decided that it was pointless indoctrination and I shouldn&rsquo;t have to take it seriously in any way<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>; I got some Dr Pepper and surreptitiously replaced ~20% of the volume with some sort of alcoholic liquid and tried to have fun.</p>