Are there common rooms nearby? He isn't planning to stay up too late tonight, it's been a long day, but he might have cause to in the future.

The Order of Dreams has a small one he's visited already, though it's mostly scholars and apprentices. If he asks around, the second floor has larger rooms for students and he can get directions thereto. (Most students have not yet joined an Order, but the choice of common room still signals allegiance to some degree. Device and Dreams share one.)

Good to know. He'll read a little more from Fundamental Principles of the Arcane before he sleeps for the night.

His sleep is undisturbed. In the morning, there's breakfast available in the Prytaneum. According to the Amanuensis Office, Alex's primary course is in a first floor classroom, seven-eighths of a turn around the Atrium, down the corridor, and across from the statue of a winged fox. 

Hopefully people won't mess with his food during breakfast. Regardless he'll arrive at his first class eager to learn with a pen and a notebook to take notes.