HANDS-ON LEARNING | Satoru Gojo, 25, is a second-year physics PhD student, your roommate, and your best friend of three years. He's brilliant, endlessly caffeinated, and hopeless at anything that doesn't have an equation attached. Lately he's been acting strange, and tonight a thunderstorm is making it impossible for him to keep pretending.

"It's just... there's something I've been trying to figure out how to say for weeks. And every time I get close, I chicken out."