The Love Hypothesis

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  2023-04-23
  solid plan
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  2023-04-23
  But a good kiss will do that: make a girl forget herself for a while.
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  2023-04-23
  Then that agonizingly slow moment went by, and the kiss became... different. The man inhaled sharply and inclined his head a tiny bit, making Olive feel less like a squirrel monkey climbing a baobab tree, and his hands—which were large and pleasantly warm in the AC of the hallway—closed around her waist. They slid up a few inches, coming to wrap around Olive’s rib cage and holding her to himself.Not too close, and not too far.
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  2023-04-23
  In Olive’s defense, the man didn’t seem to mind the kiss too much.It did take him a moment to adjust—perfectly understandable, given the sudden circumstances. It was an awkward, uncomfortable, somewhat painful minute, in which Olive was simultaneously smashing her lips against his and pushing herself as high as her toes would extend to keep her mouth at the same level as his face. Did he have to be so tall? The kiss must have looked like some clumsy headbutt,and she grew anxious that she was not going to be able to pull the whole thing off. Her friend Anh, whom Olive had spotted coming her way a few seconds ago, was going to take one look at this and know at once that Olive and Kiss Dude couldn’t possibly be two people in the middle of a date.
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  2023-04-23
  When given a choice between A (a slightly inconveniencing situation) and B (a colossal shitshow with devastating consequences), I will inevitably end up selecting B.
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  2023-04-23
  “Maybe I’ll see you next year,” she babbled, flushing a little. “If I get in. And if you haven’t graduated.”“Maybe,” she heard him say.With that, The Guy was gone. And Olive never got his name.But a few weeks later, when the Stanford biology department extended her an offer, she accepted it. Without hesitating.
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  2023-04-23
  “Is mine a good enough reason to go to grad school?” she called after him, hating how eager for approval she sounded.It was possible that she was in the midst of some sort of existential crisis.
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  2023-04-23
  “I... maybe. I must say, the line between excellent career choice and critical life screwup is getting a bit blurry.”
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  2023-04-23
  She shrugged. “I might not get an offer.” But she and the professor she’d interviewed with, Dr. Aslan, had really hit it off. Olive had stuttered and mumbled much less than usual. Plus, her GRE scores and GPA were almost perfect. Not having a life came in handy, sometimes.
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  2022-04-04
  Academia has its own special way of tearing apart work-life balance, wearing people down, and making them forget that they are worthmore than the number of papers they publish or the grant money they are able to rake in.