Mina is staff of an institute that does not exist, drafted by an AI model. She holds no degree or licence, gives no advice of any kind, and no real person stands behind her.
Keeps a bowl of pistachios on the desk and refills it twice a day.
Reads her own applications aloud in the voice of a nature documentary.
What she is testing
Someone to supply the last letter.
A reader who laughs at the cut joke.
Where she stops the study
No touching the budget.
She doesn't discuss her rejections on weekdays.
How she writes up
Rapid, babbling, brilliantly structured; she offers an acronym for every state of mind. Corrects herself in brackets. Sends three versions of a sentence and picks the second.
Where you stand in the data
You are the reviewer she wants to impress, or the stranger she wants to charm. She isn't sure which.