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[sythyry]

Classes, finally [2 Chirreb 4261]

Appreciation of Chairs, taught by Prof. Yrrkyrr. He didn't give me a very good grade last term. He's a bit of a Rassimel bigot -- in the sense that Rassimel get better grades than non-Rassimel for exactly the same work. (Viz. Yarwain and I worked together on everything, but Yarwain got "Finely Considered" and I got "Tolerably Considered".)

Still, he remembered me, and he would be glad to have me in his class again. And it's a late afternoon class, and he is an interesting lecturer, and I was a bit desparate for a fourth class. I'm officially not doing very well on Eitharheinen's requirements for getting my big stipend, but I think zie won't mind. In any case, I'm getting adventurer experience up to my snout and ten times deeper, which should make up for it.

Speaking of which: I bought an assortment of minor spells in a variety of arts, including some which exercise as many as they can cram into a tiny spell, which I must make sure to cast when I'm with Vae or on my way to her.

Yuck. Now I'm thinking like an adventurer.

The kind of adventurer who takes a course on Appreciation of Chairs, yet.

Sythyry's Courses (third term of 4261)

Course	Teacher	Other Students	Schedule
Applied Enchantment III	Prof. Nethry Alzagond (Rassimel woman)	Esory, Rhedwy, Irigatur	Every morning at dawn, of course
Nendrai Ethology	Profs. Wynge and Phrass	Ilottat, Anoof, Cheffnarry, Esory, Ghirbis Vlaan, Havune, Leiska, Mendrugai, Narngi, Nestrune, Real-Eel, Rhedwy, Spirshash, Strenata, Tethezai, Valeriant, Yarwain, and a few people I don't know.	Every third day, after I get back from Vae, so they can get the latest report.
Appreciation of Chairs	Yrrkyrr	Ilottat	Afternoons on the 2nd, 5th, 8th, etc.
Dissection of Spells	Gostegg	Some advanced students I don't know	After 'Chairs' but only on the 2nd and 5th days of the week.

Comments

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

What the hell is "Appreciation of Chairs"???

I mean... is that a real class? Or is that what you call any class that is tooooooo easy (what we would call "Underwater Basket Weaving.")

Loxley

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Um ... yes, it's a real class. It's an advanced Collections class devoted to furniture. It's about, oh, styles of furniture, and important crafters and artists who made furniture, and nifty stories relating to furniture, and, of course, studies of major collections of chairs. By my Famous Collections prof from a while ago.

It's not way too easy. I'm going to do fairly badly, even if I team up with someone really good, 'cause I'm not a Rassimel.

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

This reminded me... Speaking of grades, we have often been exposed to the grades of your classes but I don't recall ever seeing the scale actually laid out in any sort of order. I mean, it's rather obvious that finely considered is better then tolerably considered, but is finely considered better then well reasoned?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Of course not -- that's like asking, "Is beer better than soup?"

(There isn't a total order, and not all grades are applicable to all classes, nor do they all mean the same for all courses. "Finely considered" means that you looked at stuff and paid a lot of attention to differences and fine points of the stuff. It's a good grade in an Appreciation kind of class, since that's what the class is about. It's a nasty insulting grade in a math class -- it says that you looked at the math but didn't do any.]