Emily turned on her computer. Six days before she had to submit her thesis. And there they were, two new messages from Russell. She closed them without reading. Then she found her horoscope. “You can succeed right now, the stars are with you, but here’s a cosmic tip: your success will mean more if you use it to help other people too.”
She put her face on the cold countertop.
When she was ready to get back to work, Emily opened her thesis document. She wrote, “Abstract,” underlined it, then closed the document again. Then she thought about Jonah. She should go back to first principles for that problem as well. She wanted Jonah to be her friend again, and there had to be research to explain how to go about that. There had to be scientific principles at work. The bridge experiment had been
