"I've been wanting you to meet Daria anyway, she's Kiev."

"Alright, introduce us and I will owe you a small favor." though 'I've been wanting you to meet her anyway' does suggest a very small favor is more in line.

"For history I have this and then the history of magical education right after - in the same room, even, so that's cool."

"Oh, that does sound interesting – I've got the enclave from ancient India to the present." 

"Huh. I wish there were, uh, somewhat fewer pressures on course selection, that sounds neat."

"Marcy was saying at breakfast that if there were some way to coordinate schedules across the whole school - you'd basically need the internet, and there's an obvious reason no one has tried to build the internet - you could probably get lots of cool classes that, right now, anyone would swap out of because they'll obviously be tiny, or wouldn't know to want in the first place."

Curses, Malak was about to bring up exactly that thing.

To Bella – "I'm very excited and a little bit terrified I'm going to end up stuck with Pali or something." 

And to Annisa – "They might at least put out a course handbook. If things are relatively consistent over the years we could at least try to coordinate." 

"I think they don't want us to be able to coordinate classes like that. Maybe because they're worried about competition for the best classes if everyone knows about them? But the way homeroom works right now is really bad for being able to coordinate and that's probably for a reason."

"Well, who's 'they', how closely do 'they' micromanage the school, and what does the school want?"

"The designers? I'm not really sure how much to expect, when things are really inconvenient, whether the reason is - basically a sane design tradeoff or whether it's 'it was made by British people two centuries ago and they didn't have very reasonable priorities' - like curfew -"

"I think the school must be pretty autonomous. If anyone was controlling the curriculum, I have to imagine it'd be a lot more – survival-focused." 

"I guess by 'they' I meant 'the school and also Manchester and London and New York who have all modified the school at various times'."

"What I want to know is how the school acquires information – which it has to, right, since it's got classes in things that have happened since the last time it was modified. Can it just pull curricula from the void, like spellbooks? Does it learn?" 

Impressing enclavers involves so much metaphysical speculation! Annisa was not drilled on metaphysical speculation and it's starting to seem like a glaring omission!

"Pulling curricula out of the void seems like the obvious guess. Or - pulling it from somewhere, anyway. - we don't think it's writing any of this itself, do we?"

"I don't think so? It can't give you spellbooks that don't exist and I don't see why history lectures would be different."

"The spells do have to be written down but I suppose it could be stitching together Wikipedia and random graduate students' essays - maybe random Scholomance students' essays, from past years."

"You know, it should just straight-up be a senior illusion assignment, make a better history lecture. I bet kids would love it and you'd get something higher quality than -" Gesture. 

"Huh! Yeah, that's a good idea. Maybe if we talk about it enough it'll manifest as an independent study."

The projector has flickered to life and is displaying the first slide of a PowerPoint, though it's not yet talking. The first slide of the PowerPoint is 'Ancient Artifice'.

Enclaver thinks it's a good ideaaaa enclaver thinks it's a good ideaaaaa - it's possible Annisa's misremembering and New Orleans isn't even an enclave, like New Mexico isn't. "Did you hear that," she says anyway, jokingly, to the school. "Give us assignments to improve the lectures! We'll work really hard at them!"

"Maybe not specifically us?" puts in Naima, in case the school catches things addressed to it but not other things, "At least not until we've experienced a few more lectures to compare to."

"I feel like it'd be really good for morale, if some of our work went into making the school better," Annisa says. She's still worried she's doing metaphysical speculation wrong - note to future Annisa, look for a textbook on it? 

"Please don't encourage it to give us independent studies. Make it a seminar project! We'll be good!"