"Thanks," Topher said after the slightest pause. "I mean, I'm pretty sure that I'm in their league. I just really don't want to be bored for four years, you know?"

It was a subject that he had spent enough time babbling about that everyone probably knew.

"What are you doing after we get out of here?" he asked a moment later, sounding as though he'd spent a fair amount of time wondering this.