Today we follow the lives and loves of average young adults on a college campus through Gundam Wing episodes 19 and 20: Zechs Merquise has graduated from Earth High School and plans to shed his emo mask boy image with a total reinvention when he starts at Space University. He studies Mobile Suits in Classical Japanese Literature with eccentric Prof. Howard. Professor Lady Une (do NOT call her “Lady” or, worse, “Mrs. Une”) is offering her famous course on Military Propaganda this semester and everyone at S.U. is enrolled. For her advanced students, she is also teaching a seminar on The Psychology of Fascism, but her senior pet Nichol is beginning to notice that some days she’s her usual hard-ass self and sometimes she’s like “Oh, I’ll give you an A+ just because you tried.” Wufei, however, was earning every bit of his A+ on the “Attacking Barge” assignment, before crashing and burning on the final. Meanwhile, Duo is struggling at S.U. because he’s so good-looking no one takes him seriously; everyone treats him like a dumb baka! He can’t enroll in Public Executions 101 and they made him take The Aesthetics of Getting Your Ass Beat twice! His casual hook-up Heero is excelling in The Biology of Machines and spending a lot of time with Trowa, the T.A. for Prof. Mercurius’s Chinese Literature Through Idioms course. In Advanced Fandom Artifact Archaeology, we dust off Super Robot Wars and other Gundam games to problematize the question of “Who would smash who?” versus “Who would smooch who?” Surprise, we don’t actually answer anything—that's academics for you! Bam!