-1Prodigy Parker was a student in a gifted students program. Her class was doing a program where they will be randomly assigned to be someone with a doctorate degree.
"Everyone, come up and pick a name. You will meet your mentor tomorrow, so do your research. At the end of the day you will get an information packet," Miss Adams said.
There were only ten people left. Half the class dropped out after the first semester. Prodigy and Marcie were the only girls in the whole class.
The bell rang. Prodigy walked out with her best friend, Marcie. "Who did you get, Prodigy? I got dr. Ellie Green. She has one PhD in science," Marcie said.
"Lucky, you got a girl mentor. I don't know who I got. I didn't decide to look yet," Prodigy said as she searched through her bag for the name.
"Aren't you curious?" Marcie asked.
Prodigy quickly replied, "I am I'm looking for it right now. I got it. I got- drum roll please- Dr. Spencer Reid." Protégé's smile faded. Marcy saw the sudden change of expression.
"What's wrong Prodigy? You look like you got struck by lightning."
Prodigy slowly replied, "No I'm just reading." A few minutes passed, and when Marcie couldn't wait anymore, she asked, "Well what does it say? We look stupid standing in the middle of the hall. In about two minutes when everybody else get's out of class, we're going to get trampled like ants."
"It says that he has three PhD's in physics, psychology, and engineering, and he's working on a bachelor degree in philosophy, and he graduated from high school with a scholarship." Prodigy looked over at Marcy.
Her jaw dropped. "Wow, that's impressive. Is there a picture? He must be really old to have three PhD's."
Prodigy replied, "that's why I'm worried. I have a fifty year old mentor. Yours is like, thirty five."
Just then, the bell rang, and their conversation was cut. Prodigy hurried to get out of highway ninety-five's traffic jam.