As a first-generation pre-med student with no financial aid, Brooke Dolecheck takes a job as a 911 operator to support herself, and flight paramedic Marc Doll must transport a child to St. Louis for his last chance at a heart transplant.

Determined to fit in as a PhD student, Aparna Agarwal decides she'll never ask for help -- even if it means fitting in to much smaller gloves, and on a snorkeling trip of his dreams, Jesse Hildebrand doesn’t want to admit he has no idea what he’s doing.

After donating her kidney to a friend, Leah Waters struggles to get back to normal, and when the coral colonies of her childhood experience a bleaching event, Native Hawaiian coral biologist Narrissa Spies must face her greatest fear to protect them.

High school math whiz Tori has always hoped a boy would fall in love with her mind, but when it finally happens, she's not sure how she feels, and high achieving, but superstitious college student Maryam Zaringhalam’s entire system collapses when she misses a calculus test.

Eager to succeed in her Physical Chemistry class, Shaniece Mosley is thrown off by a professor's attempt at a compliment, and Lelemia Irvine struggles to get through his PhD program as he's constantly told that his identity as a Native Hawaiian is incompatible with academia.

Feeling like a loser after he fails to graduate on time with his degree in materials science, Len Kruger accepts a dinner invitation from a cult, and after young Jehovah's Witness Emmanuel Garcia loses his faith, he finds a new purpose at a neuroscience conference.

Sean Bearden has never been interested in education, but when he's incarcerated at the age of 19, he finds a passion for physics, and when Victoria Manning decides to get a cochlear implant, she fears losing her identity as a deaf person.

When Eva Bloom struggles to have an orgasm, she turns to research, and Dasha Kelly Hamilton thinks of a creative way to teach her daughters about sex.

As a kid, Samy Kamkar discovers his superpower -- hacking, and when Jordan Bush's father-in-law-to-be is diagnosed with cancer shortly before her wedding, she finds a creative way to help him attend.

Avi Caspe and his mother, Ariel Detzer, reckon with what the label of "autism" means for their family, and when Paulette Steeves' son is given 2 years to live, she searches for a way to keep him alive.