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Originally Posted by laurange  Simran straightened as the first student entered the room. Anahera Webb, a very pretty, very polite one. "Good evening, Miss Webb."
"As good as a day gets, without the sun," she said, pushing herself off the corner of the desk and standing. If students were coming in already, she would have to enter classroom-mode. "How was yours, dear?" That was...incredibly relatable.
Smiling at the professor, Anahera leaned back in her seat a little. "I'd say the same, really." Her eyes briefly darted to some of the other students filing in before landing on Professor Sandhu again. "I'm not particularly fond of the rainy weather here." PLUS how cold it got in winter. That was also something she wasn't fond of. At all.
Other than that, she did quite like Scotland. It was beautiful. Quote:
Originally Posted by nicole black Max liked these lessons for the same reasons he liked ivination, they push his mind to think in wider circles. He was a boy who loved thinking, loved learning and loved the sky- and all of these things were wrapped up nicely in Astronomy.
Not to say he was good at this stuff. He most certainly didn't think so.
Joining the class, Maxie gave the Professor a curt nod of greeting - as was his usual method - before peering around for a seat that was both quiet adjacent and not too close to the front- just in case he needed to hide his face. Anahera was an older student, but a very nice and quiet one. The seat beide her looked... fairly promising. Quietly excusing himself through the small throng of students, Maxie took the seat. "E-Evening." The hufflepuff greeted, offering the Gryffindor a tiny, slightly uncomfortable smile, before setting his attention on the instruments on his desk.
To him, it looked like the kind of things you'd maybe use to figure out gravitational pull. She'd been looking around the classroom, watching as more and more students joined them. Yet hardly any of them had caught her attention. Anahera had sent a small smile in Kaiser's general direction but other than it was mostly people she didn't really interact with so far.
Which was why she found herself a little surprised when one of them decided to sit next to her.
Not that she minded. "Hello." She gave the boy a genuine smile and shifted a little to make sure he had enough room. "Max, right?" He was a few years younger than she was AND he wasn't a Gryffindor so she wasn't completely sure she'd got his name right. Hopefully, though. Text Cut: Professor again Quote:
Originally Posted by laurange Now turning to the class, she cleared her throat to get their attention. Once she had it, or at least some semblance of it, she took her place in the centre of the semicircle of desks -- not quite at her own desk, but about a foot away from it.
"As you all know, Astronomy is a natural science. More specifically, it's a physical science." As opposed to a life science, like Biology, for example, or a social science. "It concerns celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. We learn not only about the hard science of the matter, but also how celestial events influence magic as a whole."
But of course, they knew that. Especially the first and sixth years, who had just completed the chapters An Introduction to Astronomy and A Re-Introduction to Astronomy respectively.
"We ask questions, even though we may not now be able to answer them, in the hope that someday, someone will. Or sometimes for the sake of asking them." The scientific world was still trying to prove and interpret Ramanujan's writings as well, and nobody was quite sure when it would be done. "So now I have a question for you, because you are all as much scientists as I am."
"What is important to keep in mind, as a scientist?" she asked, as a piece of chalk wrote on the board in a tidy cursive the same question. "What values and procedures does the scientific community hold particularly dear?
OOC Note: Hello everyone, and welcome again to the lesson! We've already begun, so please no longer post your character arriving or there will be IC consequences. You'll have approximately 24-36 hours to answer this question before the lesson progresses! ....oh.
Maybe she'd been wrong in her assumption of this being a more hands-on kind of lesson. This seemed very theoretical. Not really something she cared for, to be honest. Hopefully they'd be doing something with the items on their desks soon after all.
"Reliability." Anahera replied after raising her hand. She might not have been particularly interested in this part of the lesson but she could speak from experience anyway. "It's important to have reliable results and that they aren't just something you observed one time. You have to make sure it wasn't just a coincidence." |