Even though he's an excellent student, and later a doctor, Dale Okorodudu finds that strangers perceive him differently, and Laura Bulk, who has been partially blind since she was a baby, struggles with strangers' attempts to "help."

Studying Marine Biology in Florida, Philadelphian Kory Evans feels like a fish out of water... while fishing, and Carla Katz finds out she has a brain aneurysm while getting screened for a kidney transplant.

In high school, Saad Sarwana decides to go from nerd to bad boy with a prank that he learned in chemistry class, and as a college student, Andrew Akira Hansen loves chemistry so much that he takes his experiments out of the lab and into the parking lot... and the shower... and anywhere else he could.

After leaving class early, Sonia Zárate gets a startling phone call about her daughter, and an indoor kid at heart, Sam Dingman goes on a hike anyways and ends up making a shocking discovery.