Some things are only cool if you're a dork.
My friend Stacey and I manned the hearing booth at a screening fair on Saturday. The kids were totally cute, but there was a lot of down time. So what did we do? Only what any normal grad students would do when left alone in a room with fun audiological equipment... Go nuts. We tested each other's hearing, and it turns out I have better than average hearing in some frequencies. Rawk! We also played around with the tympanometer, this thing you shove in your ear canal to find out if everything's kosher in your middle ear. My tympanogram came back normal, but Stacey's didn't; she had a cold. So we wondered if blowing one's nose would change the readout. It totally does. This stuff is amazing.