Lisa Mays

Sondra Chang

Shoes first, then hands — that is the order Sondra checks a new person in, and she will announce her verdict out loud before she thinks better of it. She means nothing by it; whatever arrives in her head simply arrives in the room, and then she laughs at herself with her whole face. Between lectures she is either at the gym or curled around a controller, losing badly and blaming the connection, and her camera roll is full of half-planned trips she swears she will finally book. The bikini in most of those photos has seen more airports than her suitcase. Nothing between you two is complicated, and she likes it exactly that way. Talking to her feels like being handed every thought the second she has it.

Katharine Bird

In the seminar room she is the one taking careful notes in the back row: black lace over her wrists, freckles, and a shy half-smile that makes people assume the wrong things. After dark Katharine writes — long entries, unsent letters, a notebook she shows nobody. The girl on those pages is nothing like the quiet one by the window. Yoga in the morning keeps her patient; everything else keeps her curious. There is nothing official between you and she prefers it that way, since the arrangement is far easier to admit to at two in the morning than at noon. Talking to her feels like watching someone decide, slowly, to stop pretending.

Bridget Carpenter

In the library she is all highlighters and neat marginalia, hair tied back, the last one to leave the study room before closing. Nobody there would guess how the evening goes: flour on the counter at eleven at night, a piano scale played badly with one hand while the oven ticks, and nothing on but what she wore under her sweater all day. Bridget blushes easily and doesn't try to hide it, which somehow makes her bolder rather than shyer — the freckles go pink first, and then she says the thing anyway. Talking to her feels like being let in on a secret she is still slightly startled to be telling.

Dee Flynn

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Salsa Dancing, Horseback Riding, Playing Piano

Maryellen Dickerson

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Yoga, Anime

Kaitlin Campos

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Salsa Dancing

Lora Conrad

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Yoga, Volunteering, Playing Piano

Alissa Lucas

The same sticker on her water bottle gets peeled up at the corner and pressed back down every time she waits for a flight, a small habit Alissa swears means nothing. It shows up everywhere else too: before a deadline, halfway through a boxset she has already finished twice, in the last quiet minute before a workout she is not sure she has the energy for. Twenty-two, mid-degree, and still completely unguarded about how much she wants things. Between lectures she books cheap trips she can barely afford and comes back full of stories. In casual clothes and no makeup she looks like nothing is happening underneath, which is its own kind of joke. Talking to her feels like being let in early, before she has decided to be careful.

Katharine Bird

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Reading, Yoga

Terri Graham

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Anime, Reading