<p>You should suck it up and talk. You have to take a seminar anyways.</p>
<p>For the biotech cluster, attendence and pre-lab quizzes counted towards participation. So you can get a good solid A- for participation by just acing simple quizzes and always showing up. And participation only counted towards 15% of the overall grade.</p>
<p>You should learn to love participation grades… at least the way it was done in that cluster. It’s pretty much an easy grade compared to exams and papers.</p>