As the kids head back to school, it's natural for grownups to feel a twinge of nostalgia for the good old days when September marked the beginning of another wonderful year of learning. Well, stop sitting around like a statue with your head in your hands. Sign up for a distance-learning course in bioinformatics, and once again you'll be able to savor the pleasures of education. You can bet that if Rodin's thinker lived today, he'd be right there with you (virtually, of course), glued to his computer, studying bioinformatics online.