At one we reported back to the dorms for our classes to begin. Today, I was taking World religion and myth for my first class. It was a very interesting and well-taught course. The day's lesson was about the beliefs of the very first river valley civilizations.
English turned out to be fascinating. I didn't actually have a live teacher, but the one recorded was fascinating and very helpful, even if she did assign LOTS of homework.
Geometry was unremarkable; but what do you expect? I've always been good at math, and all it really was was a bunch of figures. Major snooze.
I finished with my assignments about a half hour early, out of the three hours alloted. I still had homework, but all the recorded stuff was over. To my suprise a message popped up on screen.
To all students:
The top ten students in each subject will be chosen for special instruction by a live teacher.
-SIT staff
"Hey, August, did you finish your stuff yet?" I asked.
"Nuh-uh," she muttered. She looked like she would have been chewing on her pencil, if one had been in reach.
"Oh. Well, lemme know if you get a note when you do," I said.
"Huh?" she asked coming over to look. After reading it she shrugged. "Well, it doesn't matter to me, because I won't make top ten in anything. But I'll let you know." She went back to her work.
"OK..." I replied doubtfully.
August did get a message, it turned out. I was intrigued. Any teacher the sailors chose was sure to be prestigious. I would love to take classes from whomever they chose.
When the three hours alloted for core classes were over, strategy began. In this case, your placement was chosen on what kind of class you felt like you could keep up with. They had said that it was OK to judge your abilities from how good you were at chess, and since I was a good player, I had picked advanced. It was assumed that most of us had no prior experience in strategy, since it was only taught in a few military schools.
The computer automatically launced into detailed descriptions of basic military movements such as pincers and phalanxes. It was the most interesting thing I had done all day, though english took a close second.
After that, it was time to eat dinner. I walked down to the dining room with my nose in my book, and August eyeing me the whole way. In the dining room we met up with Mia, Chris, T.A., and Kelsey.
About halfway through the meal, I heard a nasty voice whispering behind me. "Look at that bookworm behind us. Those spirits are full of it, but that ditz couldn't lead sheep."
I peeked behind me. A fire magic user. Figures. The patch sewn onto her uniform gave her name as Tara. I filed that away for further use. People were such idiots. Animals were much more sensible.
After dinner came fighting. Our beginning group was trained by Venus in basic blocks, punches and kicks, which we'd get to work on for the next week or so. Joy. Finally came magic, also nothing really exciting at first. Saturn, under the supervision of Pluto, was our instructor. There was no glimpse of the elusive senshi the whole time, which probably meant Pluto knew that everything would go fine. The only thing we really learned was meditation, but it would come in handy later.
That night, I fell into be exhausted the second I finished my homework, and was alseep even before lights out at ten.
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English turned out to be fascinating. I didn't actually have a live teacher, but the one recorded was fascinating and very helpful, even if she did assign LOTS of homework.
Geometry was unremarkable; but what do you expect? I've always been good at math, and all it really was was a bunch of figures. Major snooze.
I finished with my assignments about a half hour early, out of the three hours alloted. I still had homework, but all the recorded stuff was over. To my suprise a message popped up on screen.
To all students:
The top ten students in each subject will be chosen for special instruction by a live teacher.
-SIT staff
"Hey, August, did you finish your stuff yet?" I asked.
"Nuh-uh," she muttered. She looked like she would have been chewing on her pencil, if one had been in reach.
"Oh. Well, lemme know if you get a note when you do," I said.
"Huh?" she asked coming over to look. After reading it she shrugged. "Well, it doesn't matter to me, because I won't make top ten in anything. But I'll let you know." She went back to her work.
"OK..." I replied doubtfully.
August did get a message, it turned out. I was intrigued. Any teacher the sailors chose was sure to be prestigious. I would love to take classes from whomever they chose.
When the three hours alloted for core classes were over, strategy began. In this case, your placement was chosen on what kind of class you felt like you could keep up with. They had said that it was OK to judge your abilities from how good you were at chess, and since I was a good player, I had picked advanced. It was assumed that most of us had no prior experience in strategy, since it was only taught in a few military schools.
The computer automatically launced into detailed descriptions of basic military movements such as pincers and phalanxes. It was the most interesting thing I had done all day, though english took a close second.
After that, it was time to eat dinner. I walked down to the dining room with my nose in my book, and August eyeing me the whole way. In the dining room we met up with Mia, Chris, T.A., and Kelsey.
About halfway through the meal, I heard a nasty voice whispering behind me. "Look at that bookworm behind us. Those spirits are full of it, but that ditz couldn't lead sheep."
I peeked behind me. A fire magic user. Figures. The patch sewn onto her uniform gave her name as Tara. I filed that away for further use. People were such idiots. Animals were much more sensible.
After dinner came fighting. Our beginning group was trained by Venus in basic blocks, punches and kicks, which we'd get to work on for the next week or so. Joy. Finally came magic, also nothing really exciting at first. Saturn, under the supervision of Pluto, was our instructor. There was no glimpse of the elusive senshi the whole time, which probably meant Pluto knew that everything would go fine. The only thing we really learned was meditation, but it would come in handy later.
That night, I fell into be exhausted the second I finished my homework, and was alseep even before lights out at ten.
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