Due to stress in her personal life, TV writer Joey Slamon develops a cyst in an unfortunate place, and on the day of biochemistry PhD student Kellie Vinal’s qualifying exam, nothing goes according to plan.

Miserable at her corporate job, Michelle McCrackin begins to dream of a career in wildlife biology, and volcanologist Ben Kennedy’s attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist are undermined by his youthful appearance.

On the eve of his first big talk, ecologist Kevin Burgio discovers there’s something seriously wrong with his wardrobe, and research assistant Devine Joyce struggles with feelings of depression, but an experience with a patient changes her outlook.

Mathematician Seth Cottrell sets up an ‘Ask a Mathematician’ booth at Burning Man, and herpetologist Joseph Mendelson struggles to connect with the locals while working in the field in Guatemala.

Jacqueline Trumbull is preparing for a career in research when she gets a call from a casting agent for The Bachelor, and psychologist Monica O’Neal finds herself struggling when it comes to saying goodbye.

Phillip Comella discovers the cause of his “excessive bathroom breaks” while working on his thesis in biomedical science, and neuroscientist Kelley Remole begins suffering from mysterious and paralyzing headaches.

When puppeteer Raymond Carr gets the opportunity to work on a show about dinosaurs, he worries about how his creationist parents will react, and a trip to the Kennedy Space Center reminds science journalist Wade Roush of his early inspiration.

As a kid, Dan Souza finds it hard to appreciate his mother’s nursing expertise until he sees it in action, and when Michaella Thornton shares her struggles with infertility with her farmer father, his response stuns her.

The only thing standing in the way of Jennifer Landa’s dreams of studying art in college is her grade in chemistry, and when she’s accepted into the conservation fellowship of her dreams, Emi Okikawa must leave her family’s home in Hawaii.

An expert in oxytocin, the hormone released during birth, Bianca Jones Marlin is determined to have a natural birth, and science writer Veronika Meduna thought she never wanted to have children, but in her late thirties, she changes her mind.