Kester wrote that during his time at Harvard, if anyone became ill during an exam, the patient was taken to an isolation chamber in the hospital at the school, where the patient was forbidden from communicating with anyone until they finished the test. "My buddy Ryan experienced this prisoner-of-war treatment one time after he fainted in the middle of an exam," he wrote. "He woke up in the hospital, where he stayed for the next four days.... his parents became concerned when he wasn't on his flight home for winter vacation. When they called Harvard inquiring into Ryan's whereabouts, the university informed them that their son was recuperating from a case of meningitis, and – good news! – the doctors were now confident he would recover enough to live a full and active life, after he regained his vision and completed his exam, of course. Ryan's parents asked to speak with him, but their request was denied in case they happened to know a thing or two about quantum algorithms."
