Cliff Iverson writes that his first term is just as surreal as his first days but that it’s beginning to feel like his time at MIT or Caltech. He has noticed that both Jud Helkampf and Simeon Sampson independently hate him and is disappointed Gemma Lindley won’t warm up to him. He lays out his timetable for his sponsor, noting that certain classes seem unrelated to his thesis, such as Greek or forgery, but was told that he may need these skills to improvise if his initial plans don’t work. He is curious about a single-session class called “Eroticide” with a teacher named Vesta Thripper and is told seduction is one of the more dangerous tools he will learn. When he questions “Track” as a class, he is told it’s a verb not a noun. He relates how social events like dances turn into lessons and that he picks up tips on poisons from the chef Monsieur Tissier while working in the kitchen. PE classes are getting him in excellent shape and even the lesson in Practical Electronics, a field he thought he knew about, came in useful. Simeon Sampson tricked Cliff into a fake deletion scenario involving a rigged record player earning himself points toward his grade.