April 17, 2026

I was walking around the classroom as a teacher’s assistant when a student came up to me with a series of questions. First they wanted help with patching their copy of Starcraft on their computer, then they wanted advice on how to approach an NDA for a recent offer they got from NASA. Finally, they asked me how to turn their laptop screen into a touchscreen. I sat down with them at one of the few empty desks to check their installation of the game and found out they simply needed to restart their computer. I told them about how NDAs would usually specify which parts of their occupation they could or couldn’t talk about to the public. A friend came up to the desk and remarked how the distribution of people in the classroom modeled that of gas particles. I noticed I was rather warm and the back of my shirt damp; I needed to move somewhere cooler myself. I said that I’d leave the touchscreen installation to him.