"Well, I probably could have taken placement tests, but they asked me what classes I wanted and I just picked some." She smiled faintly. "It was either this or a period of nothing and I didn't want to sit around for an hour while everyone else was in class."

Eleanor was good at doing nothing, but she preferred not.

"Plus I was curious to see how much I could really use the information in my head. I've never really had to before."