He got the finalist confirmation twenty minutes after she did, through the faculty side of the same notification system, and read it standing in his office with a specific, complicated pride that had nowhere honest to land.
Amara Grid has advanced to final review. As faculty adviser of record, Professor McIntyre is asked to confirm continued availability through the December panel and, pending funding outcomes, potential ongoing involvement in the project's academic partnership structure.
Potential ongoing involvement in the project's academic partnership structure. He read that sentence four times, feeling its weight settle in stages, each read revealing another layer he hadn't fully absorbed the first time. This wasn't a semester-long advisory relationship anymore, quietly ending in Ma
