What do you do, when your brilliant, boastful science professor is a haunting character from the past ? Do you trust him, fear him or confess to him ?

What do you do, when your brilliant, boastful science professor is a haunting character from the past ? Do you trust him, fear him or confess to him ? Do you persevere with your experiments regardless the professor's snide remarks that your experiments represent science in reverse ?—susan Lim