[The distraction is fine with him, though he isn't sure how much he can tell her that'll actually be interesting.]

Yeah. I'd just started my fourth semester so I wasn't really far into my major's classes, but I've done a few of them. It was mostly computer programming and a lot of math; I wanted to make apps for phones, a lot like these ones.

[He waves one of the phones Hope gave them all to punctuate his statement, realizing only after he says it all that he's using past tense. He still wants to make apps--it'd be fun--but he's not sure that even if he doesn't somehow get home that he'll end up pursuing the same career.

But that's not exactly useful to ponder right now, so he shoves the thoughts aside.]