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Adara Triskittenion has been admitted to the school of her dreams, Dorrance Academy, the premier magical research university of the Commonality of the Timeless. Her objective: Become a faculty member and stay forever. Her family, House Triskittenion, the Hall of the Three Kittens, still has claims on her time. For most of the year she has books to read, courses to ace, but first that trivial test of combat magic skill, the Practical Exercise. Readers are perhaps familiar with fictional magical academies allegedly modeled after English Public (meaning private, boarding) Schools. These are schools for 10-18 year-olds, in which pranks, faculty imposing floggings and other punishments, athletics, and, on rare occasion, an interest in academics arise. Dorrance Academy is not one of these places. Dorrance resembles an American research university, except that the 'science' majors are fields of sorcery. Indeed, it is modeled somewhat after MIT. A minor authorial aside: As it happens, your author is also a research scientist, a retired-but-still-scientifically-active physics professor. Once upon a time, many decades ago. I was a student at America's Dorrance Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have woven into the tale a fair piece of advice on how to succeed at such a school. If you are headed off to such a place, please keep my advice in mind. You may correctly assume that some of the modest vignettes are lightly disguised real occurrences, including 'construction line' and 'personal self-aggrandizement'.

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George Phillies is a retired Professor of Physics. He also taught in Biochemistry and in Game Design. His scientific research is focused on polymer dynamics. He also writes science fiction novels and books on politics. Books by George Phillies include: Fiction This Shining Sea Nine Gees Minutegirls The One World Mistress of the Waves Against Three Lands Eclipse, The Girl Who Saved the World Airy Castles All Ablaze Stand Against the Light Airy Castles All Ablaze Practical Exercise Books on Game Design Series Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design (with Tom Vasel) Design Elements of Contemporary Strategy Games(with Tom Vasel) Stalingrad for Beginners - How to Play Stalingrad for Beginners - Basic Tactics Designing Board Wargames - Introduction Books on Politics Stand Up for Liberty! Funding Liberty Libertarian Renaissance Surely We Can Do Better? Books on Physics Physics One Elementary Lectures in Statistical Mechanics Phenomenology of Polymer Solution Dynamics Complete Tables for 'Phenomenology of Polymer Solution Dynamics'

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