Sauntering through the nostalgic corridors, a light-hearted smile adorned Johnny’s face as he made his way to his first lecture back in Seoul. He had returned from Chicago only last night but did not want to fall behind any further on his classes in fear of harming his credit and thus decided against taking a few days off to recover from the travel. Thankfully it was an afternoon lecture, meaning he was able to sleep in and fend off the jet-lag even if just temporarily.

Easily finding the lecture hall, Johnny settled down in the third row — close enough to see the board but not too close as to get picked on by the professor. Whistling a tune to himself, Johnny’s eyes darted around the large room that was slowly filling up with students. Since he had taken a two-year break from university, he was returning as a second-year student, resuming from where he had left off before his departure.

Johnny was a psychology major and the class he had now was a mandatory module for all second-year psychology students: cognitive approaches to mind and behaviour. Although the topic was one that fascinated him, he was fully aware that the professor had a reputation of being painfully dry, with the special ability of the fun out of everything and anything. Seeing the infamous professor enter, Johnny promptly took out his notebook, eager to get in the groove of university life again.

Just a few metres away from the classroom was a frantic Nari bulldozing her way through the sparse crowd of students as she mentally cursed herself for dozing off in the art studio, completely forgetting about the psychology module she had signed up in the beginning of the academic year on a whim. Kicking the door open by pure habit, Nari froze momentarily before bowing apologetically at the professor who was glaring at her, not appreciating her disruptive entrance.

Catching her breath, Nari pondered shuffling to the very back of the lecture hall to avoid being in the professor’s line of sight but realised that there was not space there. The front had the most empty seats however Nari felt no desire to be withi