He was considering a paper on mental illness when he heard the voice near him, and glanced up. "Abel." He said, and smiled inwardly at the relation to the brothers of the Bible. He set the notes down and tapped them lightly. He'd never really talked during class, never even passed notes, but wasn't doing anything worthwhile quite yet. He was going to write out his speech at home later because it was much cleaner that way, and he could think better. "I'm new, yeah." He nodded, smiling toward Cain. "My first day here was Monday. I kind of... got into it all pretty fast. It's nice here. Pretty warm, but I come from up north, so this is my first time being in walking distance of the ocean..." He glanced out the window across the room and spied the ocean. It was like a poster.