Ethnology: Science Fiction

The ethnology paper was frustrating her. It was not so much the lessons, she remembered the lessons and the studies. She even remembered how she had felt about it at the time and how much stuff could be brought in and all of her clever ideas before she took the prep course at the hospital. What was frustrating her was figuring out how to interact with these people who called her 'daughter' and 'sister' and 'girlfriend'. The last one, she knew/remembered/believed that she'd warned about this process and asked not to interact with her since she wouldn't be herself. She didn't know why she'd bothered. Some part of her had wanted to keep him, but he really wasn't a catch. Viewed objectively, his lack of good provider skills or any evident interesting and useful genes to pass along to offspring made him not appealing as a mate. When she explained this, though, very logically and matter-of-factly after he had--


Inspiration: Random Google - "ethnology"
Story potential: High.
Notes: I thought "this is going to be boring" but I rather like the idea of them making students have the stranger in a strange land experience. Something could always go wrong and leave them stuck like that, or they could choose to remain in that mode, or to refresh regularly into that mode for some reason, or the story could go somewhere else....