“She always pulls out this long tube of lotion about 10 minutes into the lecture,” explained fellow senior Julia Martin, recalling the floral scent of Gore’s rejuvenating hand cream. “Then, she’ll spend the next couple minutes gingerly messaging the lotion into the backs of her hands.”

“She makes sure to work it into her cuticles and everything,” continued Martin, who will now always associate the history of art and architecture with Gore’s aloe-infused moisturizer. “I get it, it’s dry outside. But I can only imagine how soft her hands must be by now.”

At press time, Gore was pulling down her mask to apply generous globs of chapstick.