- It's the beginning of the spring semester, 2012, and Cath's back at school.
- Her dad talked her into finishing out the year, but that's all she's committed to.
- She finally tells Reagan, whose mom foisted an Eiffel Tower lamp on them, that her own mom left her when she was eight.
- She and Reagan go to the dining hall for dinner, where Reagan snarks on people wearing Ugg boots, though Cath says she finds the continued embrace of Uggs by Nebraska college students kind of charming.