For the past week or so, I’ve been sick, sick, sick-nasty sick. Fever, sore throat, runny nose, nausea, exhaustion, etc…I had them all covered. I do hope it goes away by this weekend, because I don’t particularly fancy sparring or trying to cheer people on at TKD collegiate nationals in my current state.

I woke up from a nap today to find an email in my inbox from my 7.10 professor saying that he missed me in lecture and asking if everything was okay. In a class of maybe forty or so students, he knew my name AND my face AND that I wasn’t in class. Granted, I had him for a class last semester, but isn’t he the most awesome professor ever? Besides caring about his students, he’s also incredibly energetic about everything he teaches, be it protein filtration or deriving Le Chatalier’s principles. My favorite professor at MIT, f’sho. Little ones, take note: take as many classes with Professor Yaffe as possible!

And now, to bed. Go immune system, go!