Deep End

Deep End

Author: Ali Hazelwood Listening Length: 13h 45m
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A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrat...

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CHAPTER 19

O N SATURDAY, I TAKE THE MCAT.

Or maybe the MCAT takes me . I’m no linguist, but afterward I lie face down on the couch while Maryam stacks an increasingly tall pile of textbooks on my butt. (“JengAss, this fall’s hottest game.”) There seems to be little agency in what I was put through.

I won’t get the results for a month, but my brain zapped so many times during the test, I don’t think I did well. I could retake, but med schools will still get to see my bad scores, and the next testing opportunity will be in January, during the season, and—why do I have no memories of my critical analysis and reasoning part? A fugue state, clearly. I blacked out and rubbed against the proctor to scrounge up a couple more points.