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Welcome to your Western Sciences Class Blog

You'll find your class assignments are posted for each class here.

And I will be maintaining a class blog list for each class so that you can find your classmates' blogs easily.
So send me your blog address as soon as you have it set up

And enjoy your Sciences this Summer!

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