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34. The Breakthrough

Author: _najeeb.i
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SOFIA

After three weeks at Yale, I’d come to realize that the most stressful day was always Mondays, especially in the morning. I had three back to back classes, and the result of that situation was that I was exhausted before noon. I ended up dozing off in Professor Lambert’s class, and he had to ask me to meet him in his office when he woke me up.

Part of me wanted to just ditch school and pretend I didn’t know where his office was. After all, I could do without my professor yelling at me for sleeping in class. I’d stayed up all night working on the Alonzo dilemma, and I needed to get back to it as soon as possible. But then again, the best thing to do would be to just get it over with. So I grabbed my things and headed for his office after the class.

The office was a tiny, cramped room and it was lined with several bookshelves that smelled like old paper and dried coffee. There was a single window behind him, and the curtains were drawn so the office looked darker than I expecte
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