[Buffy hesitates because yeah, she used to think she'd drawn the short straw in her life. There were days, she still felt pretty short straw-y but she's not really used to anyone else thinking she'd drawn the short straw.
Also, Buffy would absolutely empathize with Reid's life. he has had a difficult one. It had been a lot. Just a different sort of a lot. She smiles at him and shrugs.]
I'd rather stake a vampire than write a dissertation. What was yours on? It's a really long paper, right? I sort of...left college after the first year. There was a thing and some evil and totally didn't blow it up. The college, not the evil. I blew the evil up.