Project: Socialize (Chapters 1-197)

140. Study Session

The next morning, the group came by like originally planned at 2:00 P.M with their study materials in their school bags. The group gathered about the dining table with everything needed laid out on the dark wood table and then the entire session began. Like how I've anticipated it to be, the entirety of the session revolved around teaching Noah and Zaksus the materials that they're still confused on. From what I could see, it would appear that they had plenty of things mixed up and fixing all these misconceptions will take a long time.  

"How the hell do I know who it was that discovered the mechanical use of Mana Gems?" Noah complained as he threw his pen down on the review packet. "This is stupid."

"I think the stupid one is just you," Muria sighed and shook her head in order to express her frustration. She was assigned to teach Noah due to her good grades, but it would appear that there's things that even she cannot accomplish with ease.

"It's not my fault that their names are so weird," Noah sighed and leaned back and slid down his chair. "Why do final exams exist? Who gave them the right to exist?"

"The Department of Education," Muria responded. "Come on. Finish the problem."

Noah forced himself up from the chair and picked up the packet. "Name the person who discovered the mechanical use of Mana Gems and its significance to the time period in general."

"Any luck?" Loyd asked with a smile on his face as he loosened his grip on his annotated textbook and laid it on the table.

"Still no clue," Noah sighed.

On the other end of the table, Luna was tutoring Zaksus on the topics that he had missed due to basketball. It would appear that unlike Noah who struggled with history, Zaksus's problems were on physics.

"So how do I solve this problem?" he asked Luna.

"Let me see," Luna leaned closer to him and peered at the review packet. "So it tells you how many M's the Mana Gem provides. Just use the formula to find the total work output."

"H-how?" Zaksus asked.

"Use the formula," Luna responded and stared blankly into Zaksus's eyes as if he was asking the obvious.

"So which one?" Zaksus asked, grabbing the formula sheet off the table with its many formulas all listed on it. "Which one?"

I let out a sigh and flipped my notebook shut. The chaotic noises that both sides were making were making it quite difficult for me to focus on what little notes that I had written down. Besides, I really don't care about studying at all since I am quite confident that I'll be able to pass the exams.

Nearby to my right, I saw that Irina also had a look of frustration on her face as she rested her face in her left hand while gazing at the notes that she had took. I took a quick peek at her notebook and saw that her notes were extremely neat and color coded with highlighters to emphasize main concepts of the lecture. In addition, she also utilized diagrams to better utilize the problem. Overall, just looking at her notes led to me believe that she must also have put in plenty of hours to learn the content that she had missed while she was away for her job.

Irina noticed me staring and smiled in a fatigued manner as she realized that I was suffering from the same issue as her. On her face was a countenance of joy as if she was happy that she wasn't alone in the faction of being unable to study when there's so much commotion occurring on both ends of the table since she looked at me as if she had found someone similar and that she's not alone.

"It's kinda hard to study like this," she whispered as she leaned closer to me.

"Y-yeah," I responded, blushing slightly as I looked away so as to avoid looking at her face which was now closer to mine.