Grading these Intro to Cell Bio papers at 2:12 AM is a special kind of hell. It’s just the same reductive, lazy errors over and over. ATP. Mitochondria. The powerhouse. God, I want to scream. I’m staring at these red marks like they’re blood on the page but it’s just ink.
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