The comic · Genetics of Disease (GenD)

Week 1 of 22

AUGUST 24 TO 28

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 1: Welcome and expectations.

First day. No syllabus read out loud. He put a question on the board, let us list what we would need to know to answer it, then told us the list was the course. Twenty one weeks of somebody being sick and us having to work out what it is.

Panel 1Welcome and expectations · 2026-08-24
Drawing, panel 2: How to use the class website.

Website day. Where the lesson lives, where the glossary is, and which folder every kind of work goes to. The practice section is open from day two, which I did not expect.

Panel 2How to use the class website · 2026-08-25
Drawing, panel 3: Cornell notes and the 6 Rs.

Record, Reduce, Review, Reflect, Recite, Revise. He made us Reduce notes we had just taken, and it showed how much I had written down and could not say back.

Panel 3Cornell notes and the 6 Rs · 2026-08-26
Drawing, panel 4: Lab safety and how to submit.

Safety, and not as a formality. Protective equipment, then finding the hazard and first aid sections on a real chemical before anyone touched anything.

Panel 4Lab safety and how to submit · 2026-08-27
Drawing, panel 5: WebXam pretest and goal setting.

The WebXam pretest in week one, cold. Mine was low. Everyone's was. Then we each wrote one habit down, and mine is fifteen minutes a night.

Panel 5WebXam pretest and goal setting · 2026-08-28
Week 2