"Oh yeah... though if anyone gets the more interesting metallurgical magic working I think that would be very cool on it's own."

"It'd have applications but I don't have an ambition to be an industrial process."

"That is a very reasonable opinion that people other than me often have."

"It didn't sound like you wanted to be an industrial process so much as invent them?"

"I'd like to invent one and then be involved with running it to some extent, but I mostly don't want to spend all my time as one of a large number of people doing a similar task, yeah.... their were some people in South Korea who claimed they had figured out a way to make a room-temperature superconductor with magic and if they had been right than one witch could have produced enough to revolutionize smartphones with just a few days of work each year, I think. I would have liked to be that industrial process, I think."

"What would you do with the rest of the year?"

"Well, probably there are other interesting metals to figure out how to make with magic... stronger versions of steel to help make taller skyscrapers, maybe?"

"Seems like more of an apothecary sort of thing, really."

"Yeah... I really wish that intro class had had an open seat."

"Yeah, I couldn't get into it either, I think one of the faculty had some kind of emergency."

"It did leave me free to take Spanish 1... which now that I think about it isn't actually a good thing."

"Maybe that's the one you should drop."

"I technically need a language if I do a humanities major... which isn't very likely at this point, so yeah. What are you taking?"

"Spanish 3, European History, Stats, Freshman White Arts Seminar and the associated lab, and Intro Econ."

"Oh, you got into Stats! I'm jealous."

"I think there was a lottery for it or something."

"Honestly I'm surprised at that one- I wouldn't have thought so many people would want to that it that they would need to be that selective."

"I think our class this year is bigger than previous ones and maybe they weren't sure where to hire to accommodate us. They need another apothecary and another math, apparently."

"I suppose that shows the student body has good taste, at least, even if it's inconvenient for me."

"You'll probably be able to get in next semester."

"Yeah, hopefully - are you enjoying them?"

"None of my classes have really gotten into the swing of things yet. I hope."

"My civil engineering class has already gotten really interesting... though that might just be me overdoing the first homework assignment."

"Oh, what is it?"

"Well, it was to sketch out a very basic site plan for a residential building using some educational software they provided us with but I wasn't sure about how to handle the density I wanted to support without risking the elevators being slow, so I had to look into typical elevator usage patterns and speed constraints, which turns out to be a subject of active study in some journals, so I'm trying to incorporate that and also trying to see if I can account for occasional stair usage and - probably this is boring you, no one is as excited about elevator usage patterns as I am."