Boston has done some swapping-around of baggage and gotten a start on furniture disassembly and now Marcy is looking to get some more introductions in before dinner. Oh, hey, the people who went down to do a supply run are coming back. Marcy walks over and makes some invitational eye contact.
"I'm pretty okay on paper for the moment but I'll keep it in mind." She's been taking notes in a mixture of languages for years, using whichever one can convey any given concept the most quickly, with the main benefit of saving on paper and the ancillary benefit of being very hard to shoulder-surf. "Anything in particular you're hoping to get some of?"
"I'm definitely looking for study group people; what are you planning on taking?" The rest of Boston will be great for the mutual back-watching aspect of study groups, but Abigail is alchemy track and Kevin is an awesome person Marcy would kill for and vice versa, with the situational awareness of Argus himself, but there's a reason he's going to be doing all four maintenance shifts and zero of his own homework.
"Oh, that's a cool affinity! Mind's projectiles and I love it but yours is objectively very cool. Probably lends itself well to creative writing, too."
Marcy will admit in the privacy of her head that she's crap at creative writing, and if she was in the first generation of mages ever to exist this would be a serious problem. Fortunately, she isn't, and there are more spells already invented than she can learn in a lifetime let alone four years, and if she focuses on what comes easiest instead of chasing every new and interesting challenge then she'll live to have decades and decades of indulging impractical curiosities.
"That's true. Whereas I can try spells that are about throwing things and otherwise-similar spells that aren't about throwing things. Incidentally, I have a hypothetical question . . . " conveniently Bella was off on the supply run and isn't likely to have heard it already.
"So there's like, probably divination involved, right? My understanding is divination isn't perfect but I don't off the top of my head have a 'fuck off, divination' spell and presumably whoever is setting this up doesn't show up if their spell gets a null result anwyay?"
So she'll screw someone over if they're a space alien doing divination she reads as hostile, but only if it leaves her better off. A very sensible balance, when she puts it that way. "Makes sense. Oh, hey, what's your room number? I haven't met a lot of people in my section yet."