Teacher's Pet

I didn't even realize you could be a teacher's pet in graduate school, but apparently I have managed to do it. One of my professors has always seemed to think that I work a lot harder than I actually do, and tonight when speaking with a classmate who I'm working on a project with, she said she was really happy she was working with me, because everything I did for the professor seemed to be golden. When everyone else couldn't figure out what he wanted, I was able to. It's kinda embarrassing, but she just encouraged me to use it, especially to her advantage. I thought you grow out of that kind of stuff. Apparently not.