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[The usual morning routine is interrupted by a pony with way too much energy. No one who knows her would believe Rainbow Dash is up on time and with energy, but there she is, zooming around Garden excitedly with a rainbow trail left in her wake. She seems intent on exploring everywhere, peering into all the various rooms and areas; in fact, the only place you WON'T find her is in the elevator. Because seriously she can just fly to the second floor.]

[You may be fortunate enough to find a pony in your class, if you have one with her! She's sitting eagerly at her desk for the academic ones, and... for the sciencey ones like Engineering and Physics, looking just a little bit nervous under her smile. She spends a LOT of time checking her books and terminal, and looking worried when she thinks no one is looking.]

[During the free time after classes, Rainbow takes to the Quad to play with her pet, Tank -- who is distinctive not just for being a turtle, but a turtle with a magic-powered helicopter on his shell, so he can fly around with her.]

[OOC: As usual, just say where you're meeting her!]

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[Jack first notices Rainbow in his physics class. Her obvious worrying over the material amuses him, because he's a jerk. Then they have a tactics class together, and he wonders idly for a moment why she's blue (not why she's a pegasus, mind you--he just accepts most things about magical-type creatures).

He feels no real interest in interacting with her, however, until he sees her playing with Tank. Then, suddenly, the talking flying blue pony is of interest.]

How does the turtle control it? How does that work?

Oh, it's magic. My friend Twilight helped make it for him.

[Of course, the pegasus can stop in midair and hover to say this, just by flapping her wings, so it's not like it's anything WEIRD to her.]

Ah, magic. Of course. [He seems actually disappointed.] I guess wherever you're from, most stuff must run on magic; it'd explain why you looked so confused in physics, heh. Most stuff runs off of rules.

...Don't ever let Twilight Sparkle hear you say magic doesn't have rules, she'd lecture your tail off. If you had a tail.

I don't see why I have to take all these stupid classes to be a pilot. [That she grumbles, a little disheartened.]

Pfft. [He clearly disagrees with this Twilight Sparkle, whoever she may be! But he doesn't feel like arguing it at the moment.] Different rules, then.

[Aaaaand now he looks horrified.] Um, because if you don't know how physics work, you'll crash and kill everyone? Most stuff in most places doesn't work off of magic.

I'm just saying it should be more practical! I mean, we studied in flight school, but this is all written way different than I ever learned it. All this math and stuff!

Like I said, the rules are different. You have to know the math, to be able to figure out trajectory and height and stuff... It's not something that comes naturally, like it would with having your own wings. You're trying a fly a huge clunky piece of metal. Very different.

Once you get over the first hurdle of figuring out what is going on with all those numbers, it becomes pretty second nature though. I scheduled my math class for first thing in the morning--because I'm barely awake then. That's how easy it can get. [Maybe for a literal genius...]

I'm not gonna be doing math while I'm flying a plane, I'll be flying the plain.

[She huffs, making the tips of her bangs flutter.]

I'll learn it since they say I have to, though. [Braggy jerk!]

And how are you going to understand what the instruments are trying to tell you, again?

...The instruments aren't gonna tell me to solve for "X"!

No, they're gonna tell you stuff where you'll have to solve for x to know what the stuff means!

Augh... [He rolls his eyes in exasperation.] Do you even know what a plane is?

Yes, I know what a plane is. [She rolls her eyes.] Don't know what a 'chocobo' is or whatever they were asking us to calculate the speed of in that word problem...

[Obviously fake cheeriness:] Really? Cause I don't think ya do!

Oh. Chocobos. Yeah, I have no clue about them either. I've just been pretending they're talking about magic chocolate that grew legs somehow whenever they come up in a word problem.

[Well, she WAS about to get up in his face and start jabbing him in the chest with a hoof, but that second sentence stops her.]

Hey... that's actually not a bad idea. Those word problems would be easier if I just imagined they were about things that I actually know!

Yeah, it's really helpful for me, and I'm pretty good at this stuff, so...

That's kind of a secret about school. Try to figure out how the subjects relate to things you actually do understand and care about.

[He decides, in a rare moment of wisdom, not to tell her that if a subject's really stupid you should ignore it and just cram really hard the day before a big test, because if she already thinks physics is stupid, weeelll... He doubts the results would be pretty.]

[Good, because that WOULDN'T work for her! She's already gotten booted out of school once...]

I think I can do that. I'll try it on my homework!

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