chosen Jesus Christ, he answered that what had “tipped the scales” in his spiritual journey were the actions of a classmate who happened to be a Christian. During the previous term the premed student had been very ill with the flu and, as a result had missed ten days of school. “Without any fanfare or complaints,” his Christian classmate carefully collected all his class assignments and took time away from his own studies to help him catch up. The premed student told Palmer, “You know, this kind