Vicki Nelson - Founder, College Parent Central. When your college student first leaves for college you may be anxious to have her come home again for a visit. You want to be able to touch bases in person, cook her favorite meal, reassure yourself that she is fine, and find out how things are going for her.
Etymology: AS, snesen, to sneeze. a sudden forceful involuntary expulsion of air through the nose and mouth occurring as a result of irritation to the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, such as by dust, pollen, or viral inflammation.
Larissa Stouffer of Melrose, Mass., usually sneezes not once, not twice, but three times. She sneezes as she gets into a car if it's sunny outside, but not when it's cloudy; her dad does the same thing. And as soon as she pops some mint chewing gum into her mouth, out comes an achoo. Stouffer, 30, isn't the only one with a fickle nose. Many people sneeze at peculiar moments -- such as after exercise, plucking their eyebrows, in the sunshine, or after sex. Here are the reasons why they sneeze at odd times, and why all of us sneeze in the first place.