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Aria

“Hey, are you ready?”my backpack over one shoulder

“As ready as I’ll ever be,” is my wry reply “This class is so hard, and I have no idea what I’”

“Oh please,” Elisa says with a grin “You’re doing fine, Aria Don’t even pretend because I know you’re s an A out of the bag despitelike the rest of us”

I giggle because Elisa’s right I’oing to do well this ti ht that this would be an easy course for lish was h this course too

But college has been a different gaether First, we peruse about ten books per seh I’m a fast reader, ten books is a lot I calculated, and itabout one book per week

Nor are these books short stories, or tiny little novellas that you can breeze through in one night We’ve perused so, and while I love the written word, even I had soht up with our reading is because we covered our last book, The Great Gatsby, in high school, so I only needed to skim it to refresh my memory Otherwise, I’d be weeks behind and in deep doo-doo

“You doing okay with the syllabus?” I ask Elisa sympathetically “It’s a lot I can tutor you, if you need some back up”

My friend laughsover one shoulder

“You know me, Aria I only read the first few chapters of each book and then I hit up the reader’s guide You know, it’s Cliffs Notes for college students”