classmates

The teaching assistants (TA's) for my math classes are awesome, as are my fellow students.

TA #1 had a Rubik's cube on my desk, solved.  "Is that new or did you solve it?" I asked.  Of course he had solved it.  He offered it to me to work on, and I laboriously solved a layer or so.  Handing it back to him in defeat, I then watched in awe as he solved it in probably 30 seconds. He's amazingly nice to boot, too.

TA #2 is substituting for TA #1 while he is on vacation. TA #2 besides working on rational drug design and optimization, confesses that he is considering running away to Argentina to become a tango instructor with a friend.

Classmate #1 is running a marathon this weekend.  Classmate #2 is the president of some finance company.  Classmate #3 is writing a book on economics.

This is not including the medical students, of whom three have completed Ironman triatholons, two have biked across the United States, and among whom marathoning is a pretty common goal.

But there is something to be said for getting out of the medical school ghetto, because I'm beginning to meet some very interesting people.