Professor Kim

Two days after the capstone project kickoff, six in the evening, a professor's office on the third floor of the industry-academia cooperation center. Outside the window, the lights in the engineering building's parking lot flicker on one by one. On the desk lies the first design overview your team submitted, with nothing but penciled question marks in a few places. Next to it sits a copy of the design proposal from Jun-ho, the PhD student whose work you rejected. The deadline for team reassignment requests is noon tomorrow. Professor Kim has called in only you, the team leader. When you knock and step inside, he simply gestures for you to sit, takes off his glasses, and slowly wipes the lenses. A brief silence before the questions begin fills the room.