"So you'll sort yourself and take a gap year, or you'll apply for the spring semester and start just a bit behind. This is not the end of the world, Neil. And part of this is due to choosing to skip other classes, ones that had nothing to do with your troubles."

Goodnight felt the need to be somewhat stern on that point. He understood the blow of being thrown so far off course and having trouble correcting, but that had been in English. As far as he knew, as far as he'd heard, Neil had been enjoying, or at least doing well in, his other classes until all that. Perhaps he was the last person to lecture on running away from things, but here he was.