Desiree listened as she sat in her chair fairly close to the middle of the room. Did he seem nice, she couldn't tell yet, but he got one thing right: Desiree had low expectations for this class, her sister had even said it was boring, and she was, well her sister. She pushed around her name plate a bit.
She thought for a minute and decided it was best to speak up when he asked a question. Raising her hand " Professor I think it's important to study history because it shows us where we came from, but also where we could be going.." she ended with a smile particularly pleased at her clever way of saying history repeats itself, without repeating what had already been said.