Selene is actually on an eight-semiquarters model, with each semiquarter being a bit over a month; it makes it easier for people to pop out of virtuality whenever they're ready if there's never much more than a month's wait for the next batch of classes to start. This means that Lucien's notarized schedule will be obsolete in just a few weeks, but hey.

He can get a tour from an administrative intern and be shown to his hall, a co-ed eight-person corridor on the first floor of a dorm building. Shared bathroom, not too far from the dining hall, spacious single rooms. Everybody's name is on their door, including his.

Lucien settles into his dorm, spending a while unpacking everything very neatly so he doesn't have to go out and meet people right away.

While there are many vending machines on campus and every hall has emergency protein shakes in the broom closet, the dining hall is open a wide but finite range of hours. It would behoove him to make it there in time for dinner if he's as hungry as most eclipsed are.

Hunger successfully motivates him to leave his room and find the dining hall for dinner.

There is a wide variety of food, and a wide variety of students! It's not hard to get a free ride to Selene, and the moon doesn't discriminate, so the kids are from all kinds of backgrounds. For example, according to the maple leaf on his shirt, the sub over there kneeling at an aggressively disinterested domme is Canadian.

Lucien is taking advantage of the free ride himself - though the lack of filtering does make it harder for him to find people he'll fit in with. Any interesting discussions he could listen in on?

Aggressively Disinterested Domme is sitting with a couple other people and they are talking about what would happen to people who could eclipse if they were on the moon.

That is definitely an interesting discussion!

"I wonder if you could extrapolate from eclipse patterns when the moon is at different distances from the people - there's some natural variation already I think."

"Well, of course there is, eclipse happens to everyone all over the globe at the same time or the precogs would be less harried. As far as I've heard it doesn't affect anything but maybe more detailed stats would pick something up. - I'm Isabella, are you new?"

"I'm um. Lucien."

"Yeah I'm new, just arrived earlier today."

Wow she is really pretty.

"Well, welcome to Selene, this's Myeisha and that's Peony." She doesn't introduce the boy on the floor.

He will not ask in that case.

"Thanks."

"Um. What do you study here?"

"Whatever you want, it's not like they can teach magic," says Peony.

"I mean, there are classes about magic, they're just like, history of magery, famous psions," shrugs Isabella. "I'm in a sequence of econ classes, those are fun, and I like loading up on literature."

"I'm trying to get my math requirement out of the way with statistics but it's not the easy A I was looking for," says Myeisha.

"Oh, I'm also taking statistics, and the econ sequence too. And also History of Public Infrastructure."

"They have a history of public infrastructure? I don't remember seeing that in the catalog, maybe it's new," says Isabella. "Who's teaching it?"

"Richard Franklin I think?"

"Huh, I liked his intro American history, maybe I'll take the infrastructure one."

"Wow, I had a class with him on World War II and I couldn't stand him," says Myeisha.

"I'm taking it now because I'm learning Divination, though I'd probably want to take it eventually for fun even if I wasn't."

"I'm going precog," says Isabella.

"Elementalism," says Myeisha.

"Healing," says Peony.

"What led you to pick divination?" Isabella asks.

"I think it's really understudied compared to it's usefulness - there's a huge amount of data which is really costly to gather by normal methods, not to mention things which no one thinks to look for until it's too late. Things like being able to get hundreds of years of data on what environmental factors are important for health without having to worry about noise are incredibly useful, just in a much more ... diffuse way than people normally think of psions being helpful, because it isn't incredibly useful on its own. It's only when you combine it with the ability to implement interventions once you know they're useful that it becomes important."

Lucien is very clearly excited about this topic!

"Oh, neat, I haven't actually heard anyone bring that up before and it's a great point," says Isabella, brightening noticeably. "Have you got any of it working yet or still laying foundation?"

"I can divine how many people are in a room with me. ... it's not exactly the most useful skill."

"Well, it might be if somebody's invisible, but yeah. A start's a start."

"Mhm!"

"What made you pick precog?"

"So I was tempted to heavily frontload all the internal optimizations I want to do - I'm still working on eidetic memory but there's tons of hypercog stuff that appeals which I'm waiting on - but I really don't want to sign one of those predatory contracts where I get a stipend for three years and then they own my soul for fifteen, or whatever, so I want something that I can graduate high school with usable amounts of, and you can do that as a precog even if you only have a few seconds of range. Very monetizable, save the world from diabetic children every year or two, lots of daily life conveniences. And dovetails nicely with the communicative telepathy, which currently I have working only with my twin but it'll be better by the time I'm older."