Last week we finished our reflections on the Honor Code.  In the coming weeks, we’ll consider our school virtues: what they are, where they come from, why we enumerate them in the first place…

But for this week and next, we’re going to take a little break from our usual pattern.  Instead, each day I’m going to share with you an amazing fact about your brain…and then give you a riddle to test your brain.  And the following day, I’ll give you the answer to the prior day’s riddle.

So, here goes:

First, did you know that your brain isn’t fully formed until about age 25?  Apparently, brain development begins from the back and works forward to the front.  The result is that your “frontal lobes”—which happen to be the parts of your brain that help you plan and reason—are the last to fully mature.  So, yes, that’s part of the reason many of you (and most college kids too!) plan rather poorly and struggle to think very clearly.  But no, that’s not an excuse for your teachers to give you a pass when you make foolish decisions.  I just thought you might find it interesting.

Now for the riddle:

A man went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t have a hat, an umbrella, a hoodie, or anything else he could use to cover his head. And yet, despite the rain, no hair on his head got the least bit wet. How is this possible?