真心半解--同人文(12)

the entire class. She's frozen in fear for a moment. She thinks back to Paul telling her that this is the first time she gets to dictate who she is, what she wants her life to look like.
She swallows her fear and steps in.
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She signs up for two traditional classes required for engineering-track students, but decides to try two unrelated ones, just for fun. It goes against her every
impulse to do it, but she has a four-year scholarship and plenty of time to finish an engineering degree. To her surprise, her advisor gestures at Mrs. Geselschap's recommendation letter and tells her that if she wants, she can skip the philosophy prerequisite and enroll in a 200-level class. She signs up for intro to philosophy anyways. Just because she was a smart fish in a Squahamish pond, doesn't mean she's cut out for the real world.