Firstsemester Stories

Their brief meetings and silences become small but unforgettable chapters of her everyday life.

Sophia Ramirez is starting her first semester at Crestwood University, hundreds of miles from her hometown and everything she's ever known. Shy and deeply introverted, she's more comfortable with books than people. But when her quirky philosophy professor assigns the class a semester-long project titled "How to Befriend a Stranger," Sophia finds herself thrown into a social experiment she never signed up for.