Work It / Opening Dance Scene ("Baby, Baby" by Tropkillaz playing)

Albert Einstein once said that dancers are the athletes of God. Kim Kardashian once said, lighting is everything. And as head of the AV club, I had to agree. Sometimes I wonder, if Einstein were alive today, would he have even gotten into college? I mean, sure, he was good at math and science, but did he have extracurriculars? These days, great colleges want a little bit of everything, and I thought I had it all on lock. I started my mornings with a TED Talk, because who doesn't love a good life hack? And that is why cold showers are empirically more effective. Then I read to school every day with my best friend, Jazz. Come on, hurry up. Have a bio test to fail. We've been inseparable since kindergarten, when she gave this kid a wedgie for making fun of my Bill Nye the Science Guy lunchbox. Jazz isn't too worried about grades, because she's going to be a professional dancer. While Jazz was twerking up a storm, I was building an impressive college resume with a well-calculated assortment of AP classes, student government, and I even volunteered at a local nursing home. Anything to make my application fully rejection-proof. Okay, so I didn't have a boyfriend, or a car, or a bustling social calendar, but it was all going to pay off when I got into my dream school, Duke University. I thought I had it all figured out until one day, everything kind of spun out of control.