September 26th
Entry written in study hall. Exam today. All at different times, which is new.
Professor Grabiner is holding it, and he's actually being helpful. It's a little scary.
He's drilling us on the types of magic to use in different situations. I answered one correctly, but he said I need to be more confident when answering, because – and this is a bit of speculation – solutions can come from more places than one (and more than one color of magic) if we're creative enough. ….I think. Actually, when people get it wrong, he's just been correcting them, and not chiding them overmuch, so maybe there's something to that?
Be certain of choices!
That makes sense, actually. Faltering in the middle of a spell seems like it could have dire consequences.
He's making his rounds again and he'll be over here soon so I'd better get back to studying. Wish me luck!

Addendum
I passed! Walked away with ten merits, too.
The exam was, indeed, in a dungeon. I think. Unless it was an illusion. Could have been.
Anyway, it was just a room with no exits, and my instructions were to find a way out.
It would have been really, really easy to just try and push the wall down, but…
Well, Professor Grabiner was the one holding the study session, and then there was my speculation earlier, and. I guess it seemed like he wanted us to think about it more? Justify our choices?
Green magic was right out, as was White Magic. Black magic was a viable option, but I didn't know what to reshape it into, and I haven't really been taking enough classes in that. …that one's less justification and more a failure on my part. I'll be more balanced with my classes next week, I swear!
Given that it was only our first exam and a significant portion of the students are wildseed, it seemed unlikely that there would be something dangerous behind the wall, but it was possible – not even taking into account structural integrity. I didn't want to just go blasting through the wall.
And. Um. He seems to treat that sort of 'easy solution' with more derision, and that might have sort of factored into the decision?
I am so much of an embarrassment it's not even funny and I'm going to look into ways to keep people from reading this. If anyone does manage to read this before then – hey, at least it worked!
So it seemed a natural conclusion.
If I didn't want to change my surroundings, why didn't I just change me?
So I used blue magic. And it worked!
…sort of.
I'm not teleporting myself again until I've studied Blue Magic more and I have someone experienced to help me out. That was terrifying. Might need therapy. Wizard therapy.
The professor seemed sort of impressed, so yay?
I'm just glad I listened – listened to Ellen when she said it helped explain the other classes (if only marginally) and to Damien, when he recommended the classes.

Alright, I'm going to go before my basking turns to wallowing.

-Illia


(Author's Note: I've actually never completed the test by successfully using Blue Magic, so please forgive any inaccuracies here. …I love over-thinking things like these. =w=
And a big thank you to AkiakaneChan and Esmeh for reviewing - it really means a lot! OuO)