[He laughs. Yeah, engineering. And engineers. Even if you are one-- it comes with a bit of social stigma. Also cats.] "Yeah. I thought about Software for a while, but what can I say." [He shrugs, shifts his backpack a little.] "I like mechanical. Maybe I'll follow up with aerospace, but first I gotta get through one degree." And right now? Getting through this semester is all he wants to think about. Ugh. "And it has a history to it too, you know? Industrial revolution and all." Which okay, he didn't know that much about. But Julius did, and shared. He'd picked stuff up. "I bet you'd like it. Molly says you're making her learn physics and calculus and stuff."

She kind of hated it. Kept trying to get him to do her homework. At least he was a good tutor, even over the phone, and Alicia could do a lot of it too.

"...Man." [His face turns down, and he tries to remember some of the actual stories.] "The stuff with like. The talking animals and clothes that hurt and turning people into stuff? Oh! The girl with the bearskin? And her father wants to-- yeah."

A stalwart student of literature. Can't you tell?