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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.

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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.

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Originally published at Sythyry. Please leave any comments there.

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.
Formal Enchantment II	Prof. Trillisanguinus Spreen (Rassimel woman)	More of the same. ~Mother~ shall be so pleased. I shall be so more stipendulous. (Late morning)
Applied Enchantment II	Prof. Nethry Alzagond (Rassimel woman)	Perhaps I shall finish the cursed thing this time around.
Very Dangerous Knobbles	Prof. Vengtomerax Bloodthorn Tears-bringer (Gormoror woman!)	A course on spellbinding. The name of the course refers to the use of attaching spells to little lumps of this or that, for use as traps.
Biology of Elementals	Prof. Verra Tardamos (Rassimel man)	One of those marginally-magical courses, half natural philosophy and half magic, with which I must pad my studies because Enchantment takes so much cley and I don’t really have enough left for something like spell invention. Still, I have more or less decided that I shall be an enchanter. Esory is being entirely too influential…. or, perhaps, ~mother~ is. (Late morning)
Leap into this Pool of Boiling Acid	Prof. Phrass	Another course of anecdotes and snippets of history, this one about famous demises and the demises of famous people. It is arguably the most practical course I am taking — at least, Ghirbis argues so. It will contribute greatly to my powers of smalltalk at court.

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Originally published at Sythyry. Please leave any comments there.

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.
Formal Enchantment II	Prof. Trillisanguinus Spreen (Rassimel woman)	More of the same. ~Mother~ shall be so pleased. I shall be so more stipendulous. (Late morning)
Applied Enchantment II	Prof. Nethry Alzagond (Rassimel woman)	Perhaps I shall finish the cursed thing this time around.
Very Dangerous Knobbles	Prof. Vengtomerax Bloodthorn Tears-bringer (Gormoror woman!)	A course on spellbinding. The name of the course refers to the use of attaching spells to little lumps of this or that, for use as traps.
Biology of Elementals	Prof. Verra Tardamos (Rassimel man)	One of those marginally-magical courses, half natural philosophy and half magic, with which I must pad my studies because Enchantment takes so much cley and I don’t really have enough left for something like spell invention. Still, I have more or less decided that I shall be an enchanter. Esory is being entirely too influential…. or, perhaps, ~mother~ is. (Late morning)
Leap into this Pool of Boiling Acid	Prof. Phrass	Another course of anecdotes and snippets of history, this one about famous demises and the demises of famous people. It is arguably the most practical course I am taking — at least, Ghirbis argues so. It will contribute greatly to my powers of smalltalk at court.

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Digression: Grades

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?

No, it is not better, nor is it worse. Not uniformly better, that is.

We don't have a system which chops all grades up into a few categories that supposedly make sense for all kinds of courses. The grades depend on the course, naturally.

"Finely Considered" is a good grade for courses like "Famous Collections". It means that you looked at things and noticed lots of important features and knew the fine points of what you were seeing. It's a good grade in "Famous Collections", since that's what you're supposed to do in "Famous Collections".

It would be a bad grade in a math course -- it would mean that you had watched the professor do sums, (and, for 'finely', perhaps caught the professor in some errors or some such) but had not successfully done any sums yourself.

I don't know if you could even get that grade in a Spelunking class. Maybe if you'd gotten crippled early on and did some sort of book report on spelunking? No, that should be more of a "Reasoned" or "Investigated" kind of grade. For a "Considered" you'd need to have watched people spelunk. Scrying maybe. It would be awfully hard to arrange.

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Digression: Grades

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?

No, it is not better, nor is it worse. Not uniformly better, that is.

We don't have a system which chops all grades up into a few categories that supposedly make sense for all kinds of courses. The grades depend on the course, naturally.

"Finely Considered" is a good grade for courses like "Famous Collections". It means that you looked at things and noticed lots of important features and knew the fine points of what you were seeing. It's a good grade in "Famous Collections", since that's what you're supposed to do in "Famous Collections".

It would be a bad grade in a math course -- it would mean that you had watched the professor do sums, (and, for 'finely', perhaps caught the professor in some errors or some such) but had not successfully done any sums yourself.

I don't know if you could even get that grade in a Spelunking class. Maybe if you'd gotten crippled early on and did some sort of book report on spelunking? No, that should be more of a "Reasoned" or "Investigated" kind of grade. For a "Considered" you'd need to have watched people spelunk. Scrying maybe. It would be awfully hard to arrange.

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Originally published at Sythyry. Please leave any comments there.

Digression: Grades

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?

No, it is not better, nor is it worse. Not uniformly
better, that is.

We don’t have a system which chops all grades up into a few
categories that supposedly make sense for all kinds of
courses. The grades depend on the course, naturally.

“Finely Considered” is a good grade for courses like “Famous
Collections”. It means that you looked at things and
noticed lots of important features and knew the fine points
of what you were seeing. It’s a good grade in “Famous
Collections”, since that’s what you’re supposed to do in
“Famous Collections”.

It would be a bad grade in a math course — it would mean
that you had watched the professor do sums, (and, for
‘finely’, perhaps caught the professor in some errors or
some such) but had not successfully done any sums yourself.

I don’t know if you could even get that grade in a
Spelunking class. Maybe if you’d gotten crippled early on
and did some sort of book report on spelunking? No, that
should be more of a “Reasoned” or “Investigated” kind of
grade. For a “Considered” you’d need to have watched
people spelunk. Scrying maybe. It would be awfully hard to
arrange.

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Originally published at Sythyry. Please leave any comments there.

Digression: Grades

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?

No, it is not better, nor is it worse. Not uniformly
better, that is.

We don’t have a system which chops all grades up into a few
categories that supposedly make sense for all kinds of
courses. The grades depend on the course, naturally.

“Finely Considered” is a good grade for courses like “Famous
Collections”. It means that you looked at things and
noticed lots of important features and knew the fine points
of what you were seeing. It’s a good grade in “Famous
Collections”, since that’s what you’re supposed to do in
“Famous Collections”.

It would be a bad grade in a math course — it would mean
that you had watched the professor do sums, (and, for
‘finely’, perhaps caught the professor in some errors or
some such) but had not successfully done any sums yourself.

I don’t know if you could even get that grade in a
Spelunking class. Maybe if you’d gotten crippled early on
and did some sort of book report on spelunking? No, that
should be more of a “Reasoned” or “Investigated” kind of
grade. For a “Considered” you’d need to have watched
people spelunk. Scrying maybe. It would be awfully hard to
arrange.