You know I had to commemorate the holiday where everyone is supposed to wear green.
Hope you all have a pint of green beer. Or dye your hair green like my cousin did.
So this morning on the news I saw a guy I knew in college…he was in BME like me, but he was always the odd duck. Did I never tell you about the guy in my freshman physics class who, after a certain incident, decided that skirts were more comfortable and going shoeless was a norm? Once in said physics class, during the spring semester, he was warm and decided to take off his jacket. Then a few shirts. He apparently had a bag full of clothing because he was going to a theater class later. Then more clothes came off. Finally he ended up sitting in the chair, hopefully not with his bare bits right on the seat, but wearing only a coat. Someone thought it would be funny to toss his clothes around the lecture hall, which it was, and the entire class was watching this little drama aside from the teacher. Who was totally oblivious, I might add. Every time the laughter would get too loud, he would finally turn around, but no one would move. Clueless.
Someone else thought it would be hilarious to leave early with all of this guy’s clothes. So when class got out, we all walked outside to see his clothing up in a tree outside the hall. Luckily he had a skirt for that theater class, and he wore that. Like I said, an interesting duck.
Anyway, his father was on the Today Show this morning, and he’s apparently a famous cancer researcher. But you can see where he got it from; his father’s apparently the very model of an absent-minded professor, who occasionally forgets whether a red light means stop or go. It was kinda cool to see where he went after Wash U…Johns Hopkins. Wow. He’s got a brother, and they introduced the two of them by saying one is a budding biomedical engineer and the other is studying neuroscience or somesuch. But they showed the brother as the BME son, which I laughed at.
Nice to know that someone from WU in BME is doing well. Wish things were going so for me…