[Nate brightens, because even though he enjoys a lot of the class material they cover he always feels like there are historic plot holes that wizards aren't accounting for - blank spaces in the timelines that no one seems to care about but him.

Job-hunting seems a little moot when his intentions are to join his brother in freelance curse-breaking as soon as he graduates.]

Research! [he says, with the excited tone of someone who was just given precisely what they wanted for Christmas.] I mean, I was gonna- there's a lot of things I wanna get into before we leave school. The temples of the Aztecs, magical creature work...a-and, y'know.

[He gestures between the two of them.]

Stuff.