...goes unpunished. So I was sitting in Stats class Wednesday [that's 'Experimental Design : Stats 2'] listening to a lecture on Nested Models in experiments when I noticed a girl to my left struggling to pick up a pen that had fallen off her desk. I waited for a bit as I watched her lean over to reach it. It seemed to be about 3 inches too far for her to get. Her desk was leaning...leaning...leaning...and I was sure she'd tip over if this continued. Let it be known, by the by, that nobody around her was offering any assistance, including the guy seated directly beside the pen. And let it be known as well that I, I was raised better than this. One helps in this type of situation, right? Like opening the door for someone on crutches, or giving up your seat to a pregnant woman, one must act. I had to act.
So I got up and walked the 1o feet over to help her before her desk tipped over. Magically as I arrived she was able to put her fingers on the pen. This left me like Paul Baumer in the middle of a classroom no man's land as I stood near her desk for no obvious reason. Seeing as she had the pen, I turned to return to my seat. Right at that moment, I heard a loud crash behind me. Everyone in the room turned with me to look at the source of the noise. Much to my chagrin I discovered that the noise was my binder crashing to the floor, vomiting its 200 pages of notes in a pile around my desk. And there I was, standing randomly in the middle of the class during a lecture.
So I walked back to my desk with everyone in the room staring at me to pick up a semester's worth of Stats Powerpoints. The girl whom I had tried to help apologized a bit [and laughed], and I sat down and tried to reorganize the unorganizable sheets of paper. Thankfully at least some of the people around me knew what I had tried to do, which made it a little bit better.
This lesson taught me that sometimes good deeds do not go unpunished. Did I make the right call? I think so. I'm sure that the K-Man would have done the same thing, too. He's classy like that.
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