She hesitated. Her mother, a civil engineer, had always told her: The shortcut is often the longest path. You skip the struggle, you skip the learning. But Elara wasn’t trying to skip learning. She was drowning in it. She wanted to see the shape of the right answer, to understand why her temperature profile for the composite wall looked like a roller coaster when it should have been a smooth, declining curve.
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