twenty-three; Teresa, Black Mountain Bike

She’s as genuine as the calluses she earned pushing pencils in community college for the past two years.
Obliging but not foreword, she explains that she's a functioning Christian, apparently it runs in the family (her mother moved the two of them from New Mexico to run an incapacitated fellowship out of the ground).
She decided to study civil engineering because she has a passion for people and water (and she doesn’t like writing essays).
In spite of the doubts of those closest to her, she’s floating on fresh admittance to Cal,
“Coming here is a matter of pride for me.”