As a professor, Segna Ur-Segna knew that very little in the way of academics would get done in the first week of a new semester. It was an orientation week. The first week was a time to make sure the students understood the scope of the class, and the difficulty and dangers of the magic they would be learning. It was a time for lesson plans and outlines, and assessments, and rushing off to buy that book or reagent that had been on the syllabus when one enrolled in the class, but that one had forgotten to...