Alexius performs the obligatory mal-check, then sits down and starts memorizing the textbook that appeared while he was poking about under the desk. Maybe when he can call up a map of anywhere at will he'll be able to convince the school to give him teleport spells? Even in-affinity it would take way more mana than he can generate on his own, probably ever, but it'd be neat to have the option. Assuming he survives graduation, anyway. 

Their first assignment is to predict how glaciers impacted settlement patterns.

The book doesn't explain the connection, but there's a chapter on glaciers and a chapter on prehistoric human geography, so Virgil starts reading through them. He didn't study glaciers at all, because he didn't expect he would need to know anything about them. The book mentions a spell, but it's for navigating relative to a stationary 'home' point. Virgil files that away in his memory in case it's even useful in the Scholomance, where space doesn't work the same way all the way through; the textbook doesn't explain the theory or provide an incantation, but he can try to look it up later.

Virgil tries not to worry too much about mals (it looks like the blond kid has elected himself mal-killer, and Virgil doesn't have anything good for that), though he keeps an eye out.

Morty doesn't have this class with Destiny, and is going to take the opportunity to do zero socializing and instead focus on getting as much of the reading and homework done as he possibly can during the period. It's...decently interesting, at least?