Alexei takes notes, even though he can feel this settling into his memory, because getting out of that habit will kill him and he'll need to restudy all of this when the potion runs out anyway. 

Wilbur takes notes, with an emphasis on where the lecture's definition of conflict and his own intuitions don't match up, and doodles fiber ideas in the margins.

Lily takes notes as well, though this isn't how she would ideally be spending her enhanced memory time she hasn't had time to get books on Latin from the library yet -

Orion is more interested in this class than in some classes but not that interested. He skims the book, nods along to the lecture, writes down about thirty words and some punctuation over the course of the class, and mostly looks hopefully at the air vents and fidgets. He gets up to walk the perimeter of the room at one point when the disembodied English gentleman is talking about how conflict does not always entail coming to blows and might mean cold wars or trade wars or something.

It would be nice to see some kind of display of Orion's mal-killing abilities to confirm that he isn't totally fucked come Monday.

...maybe she can alternate note-taking with some of the other students, leave time to do other homework in class. Her notes have scrawled commentary in the margins ("we KNOW what a conflict is shut UP") but are otherwise neat and organized, if in kind of messy handwriting.

It hints at interesting things to come, but that's the best he can say about it. It doesn't look like this class will be particularly useful. Ghassan tries to generate some spell concepts for preventing or encouraging conflict- neither likely to help, so he won't follow up on these, but it's good practice if he's going to commit to the creative writing track.

Alex is Not Getting Distracted- no, he is getting distracted, Orion pacing the perimeter makes him suppress a twitch whenever he's at his back and at one point he catches himself doodling a poor cartoonish representation of the mal of the day instead of listening to The Englishman lecture briefly on the use of taxes and embargos in trade conflicts and has to force himself to refocus. Also, is it just him or is the air buzzing a little? Probably just him, since no one else is reacting, including the combat prodigy he'd heard about through Zed who heard from their mom when they lived in New York before she died. 

Ow, his head. 

Looks like that kid is having a bad time. Ghassan will need to find him during lunch.