/tags/engine-bay/Recent content in Engine-Bay on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usMon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2018/04/16/girl-power/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2018/04/16/girl-power/<p>In 2035, the science department of Atwater College, a small and prestigous New England school, was shaken up by the arrival of a shy exchange student from Poland named Malgorzata. Not that Malgorzata was a disruptive presence: she was a pleasant-looking but unspectacular blonde, short and slender, mild-mannered, and very quiet. The reason that Malgorzata shook up Atwater was that the science department there was world-class and fiercely competitive, and Malgorzata had been doing some amazing things with the new techniques in botanical gene-splicing. One by one, the other students dropped by her lab station to see what she was up to, and came away buzzing with stories of amazing organic transformations, far more sophisticated than the college-level work of her peers.</p>