So I have a minor sore throat and sinus drainage, plus some tiredness. Although I'm not entirely sure that the tiredness is connected to the sore throat. The life of an engineering student is so full of relaxation, as you may well know.

But anyway, I decided that because about half my class is coughing, I probably don't want to encourage a massive revolt by my immune system because the Union has reservations against touching a certain rhinovirus that insulted it them once in middle school, I was going to take some Airborne.

I do not entirely trust Airborne. As a closet medical scientist I have reservations about trusting that a few herbs will sooth all the unrest in the T cell faction. Still, I figured I'd give it a shot. It's not like the stuff is going to hurt me.

I took another tablet just a few minutes ago, and as I was watching the thing's fun little bicarbonate molecules fizz like some bizarre freak cousin of Alka-seltzer when this rose unbidden into my head:

The instructions on the packet say that the tablet should take about a minute to dissolve. I put this about on par with what I witnessed when the water was lukewarm. At lunch, when I had cold water, it took longer. So, it just figures that at some temperature, the rate of dissolving will double when the water temperature is increased 10C, as per Arrhenius's rate constant theory. So, if I take the natural log of 2 and find the temperature at which the above statement holds true, I can figure out the activation energy and the pre-exponential factor for Bicarbonate+herbal supplement.

Not that this is important information. Nor is it even interesting or useful in anyway. It's just what I have to do for my homework these days.

And to think our chidrens is not learning enough about science. I may be learning enough for all of thems.