First Casualty

I heard that one of my classmates dropped out. It probably wasn't about grades - the school won't throw you out unless your GPA is under 2.0 at the end of the first year, and only a tiny handful of students are flirting with that possibility. The student that dropped has kids and lives more than a hundred miles out of town, so I assume she just decided she had bitten off more than she could chew. She sat next to me in Contracts, so I'm enjoying the extra elbow room.