Bela and Whitney go to the gym to work out. Bela meets a member of the crew team she designates as a “short king.” They start meeting up for sex, which gives Bela the idea to write an article for the comedy magazine about how short kings are unexpected sex gods. ..
Whitney takes biochemistry with Bela, but everyone discourages her, noting it’s one of the hardest classes at Essex. Whitney is determined to discover hidden talents she may have apart from soccer.
Whitney is one of the last students to leave the classroom after a test. She gets a 62 on the test, but half of her classmates have dropped out. Whitney decides to stay in the class and try to pass the test. She knows she isn’t the best at biochemistry, but she is determined to show her classmates that she can do well. ..
While Whitney focuses on school, Kimberly is only thinking about how to stay in school. She weighs the idea of selling her eggs, which would net her $80,000.
She’s later surprised to find she has a class with her neighbor Jackson. She spills her anxieties to him about potentially having to leave Essex, and he gets where she’s coming from. Like her, he has trouble fitting in, and would also be scared to adapt to a new place. ..
After their conversation, Kimberly decides she wants to donate her eggs. She calls the fertility organization and asks about applying to donate her eggs. ..
Leighton is caught between several girls she had sex with, and has to break it to each of them that they’re not dating exclusively.
Leighton is focused on getting into Kappa, but she finds out that she has chlamydia.
The Episode Review
Kimberly has been a great asset to Essex. The money she gets will help her stay, and it’s good that she’s developing such a strong relationship with her new neighbor.
In this episode, we only see Leighton’s dramatic finding, which is of course the main focus. However, I think the main storyline is Whitney’s search for meaning and challenge in her life. While I wish writers could have come up with something more creative and meaningful than a biochemistry class, I hope we get to see more of Whitney pushing herself to grow and proving others in her life wrong.
