Yesterday I was giving a guest lecture in the petrophysics course at Ben Gurion University. It was a three hour course that was scheduled to end at 6 PM. I had finished deriving Archie's Law and was in the middle of describing the resistivity logging tool when one of the students kindly interrupted. I was getting questions all through the lecture, so I was expecting a question regarding my explanation of the logging tool. Instead the conversation went like this (to the best of my recollection which given the circumstances wasn't so great.)
Student 1 : Excuse me Scott. The university just sent an email. There's been some escalation of events down in Gaza. So the university is suspending all activities.
Me: Uh...Hmm...Uh...
Student 2: Yeah, the IDF just killed a high ranking Hamas official
Me: Uh...Hmm...Uh...So should we be going to the stairwell (which also serves as a bomb shelter) or should we be going home?
Student 1: They said we should go home
Me thinking in my head: Hmm...I'm only half way through this lecture. And the HW is based on things covered in the second half of my lecture...Hmmm....what do I do? I don't want to come back again to teach next week. Hmmm....
Me: Ok...Hmmm...well I'm only half way through. So let's do this. I'll post my lecture notes on the web. And those of you who sat through my lecture a year ago and did the HW problem back then, if you can help the others in the class with it, then I think we will be fine. Ok...so I guess that's it.
Students: Ok. Thanks.
The student who interrupted me and who is also a colleauge of mine texted me later w/ "The look on your face when I told you school was cancelled was priceless."
Anyways, all is good. I made it home ok, met up with Jana and Makai at the playground, and we went to a "street asian fusion diner" for dinner. It was pretty good.
And finally I'll leave you with a link to Israel Defense Force's (IDF) blog
http://www.idfblog.com/
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