"Wow!" So his new roommate was in a band with their own poster? Richard had to say that he was impressed and sort of envious because it seemed like Topher's future was kind of set up already, and he wondered if maybe the idea of going into the medical field was too much of a long shot for him. After all, his grades weren't the best in the world even with his extra work, so there was no guarantee that he would get in to a medical school even if he passed the required classes. He just didn't want all that time to be a waste.

Deciding to turn to a different subject, he stared at the poster of his roommate's band. "So how long have you all been playing together," he asked. They must have been together quite a while if they were getting regular gigs somewhere, and then he began wondering if he should perhaps learn an instrument of some kind just to have as a fall back plan.