Donghae’s Friday afternoon routine is, for the most part, boring. He gets out of his junior chemistry seminar at 4:15 and takes the bus home to his complex, ditching his school bag in an armchair on his way into the bedroom to change into workout clothes, then heads back to the kitchen to chug water and pick a good-looking banana from the bunch on his countertop to cut up into some Greek yogurt. As he eats his snack, he goes through his school email—there’s a break in the monotony that makes him grin, wide and toothy, when he sees he’s gotten a positive response to his inquiry about entering his department’s honor’s program for his senior year next semester, to which he replies enthusiastically. There are reminders about on-campus events and job openings that he promptly deletes, a message from his Korean language tutor, and one from his quantum chemistry professor asking to use some of his work as an assignment example in the future. Donghae gives his permission, relishing in the warmth of implied praise filling his chest, before tapping the tablet off and dropping it back into its docking station.