I have never met a professor more capable of lifting up a struggling student as Prof. Prasch. During the winter semester of ’08 I found myself crippled with writers’ block and had not slept in two days while trying to write a final essay for his course. A fifteen minute meeting at the Library Cafe was all he needed to set my world right again. He told me to get the essay in whenever I could, but that was just the first minute of our meeting. During the remaining 14 minutes he told jokes, stories, tidbits of personal advice- anything to remind me after two days of manic consternation that hey, after all, this was just an essay. As our topics of conversation got broader and broader, the weight of my current problems seemed smaller. Without me knowing he saw exactly what I needed at that moment. Everybody who stumbles has needed a Prof. Prasch at some point. He will be missed.