Interdisciplinary Studies or Whatever, Class 9, Friday, Period 1

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When the students arrived, they'd find a advanced chemistry textbook, pencil, and paper lying on each desk. Squall had a book, too. At the front of the room was what looked to be a papier-mâché volcano.

"Today, class," he said, as he tossed out the sign-in clipboard, "we're going to learn chemistry."


"Chemistry is what happens when you mix chemicals," Squall began. He then started flipping through the textbook and summarizing bits and pieces here and there. It was slipshod and haphazard, but it'd at least give the students some idea of what chemistry was about. Maybe. Possibly. Most of the time it sounded like Squall didn't really know what he was talking about.

When he got to the bit about the periodic table of the elements, he ripped the page with the diagram out of the book and taped it to the chalkboard. "That's important."

He went through every chapter of the book, giving a few sentences of explanation out of each. "And there you have it," he finished. "Chemistry." Then he poured some baking soda and vinegar into the paper volcano and watched as foam bubbled out and spilled onto the floor. "See? Nothing to it. Any questions?"

"Now, I want you to turn to page [handwavey] and answer questions 1, 3, 7, 11, 15, and 23. You may work in groups, if you'd like."


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Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny boggled a little. "He'd never get anything done. I mean, Jeroen was some sort of computer genius before his first breakdown, but the new guy, ha, no." Then she grinned slyly. "I'm pretty sure I can describe strawberry ice cream."

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan raised his eyebrow. "At the molecular level? At the very least, you'd need to be able to describe some form of recipe -- a lot of the constituents would have words in the Speech, but you'd have to be able to tell the spell how to put them together."

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny sighed. "Suddenly I'm so glad our magic doesn't work like yours. But there are lots of you wizards, right? We only ever get one Doctor at a time. So it needs to be simpler, I guess. Less mathy."

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[not_in_the_book]

"I don't know if I'd say lots, although given areas will have higher concentrations -- but yeah, we're definitely not, y'know, just one person. There's no one else who uses magic at all where you come from? It's all just tech or individual powers?"

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[ashockingbitch]

"Yeah, it's pretty much just him," Jenny said with a shrug. "Actually, except for a few of us, it's pretty much all tech. Even if it is tech to the degree that it seems like magic."