Sapphire was unpacking in her room, waiting to see what lesser being she would be stuck with for the duration of her time here. She was more than intelligent enough to do what she wished, but due to the systems in this country, she would have to have a 'degree' in order to be legally recognized at all.
Sapphire soon heard the clicking of her door unlocking as a taller girl popped her head inside. "Hello? I'm Emma, your new roommate." She smiled softly, her brown hair and hazel eyes making her seem quite unintimidating. She walked inside with a few bags to drop off her stuff for her first trip from her car. After putting it down she walked over to Sapphire shyly. "I hope we can get along while we are here. I've heard you are top of our classes in the degree we are both going for."
Sapphire put on a nice front "Nice to meet you Emma, I'm Sapphire Gemstone." She motions to the open bed in the dorm. "I don't mean to sound smug, but I do pride myself on how far I've come in my degree." She smiled, this one would do perfect as a test subject, willing one at that. "So, any specialty within our degree you working towards?"
"On the whole I am working towards a degree in advanced robotics with a minor in programming." Emma smiled walking over and sitting on the bed next to Sapphire. "And you have every reason to sound smug, your thessises are all astounding. I would openly admit that I have read over a few of them during my studies!" She was trying not to get too excited after all she didn't have many friends and even fewer who were also trans.
Sapphire grinned "Why thank you, currently I am studying how to make a neuro uplink safe and stable. I know there has been limited exo-suits and robotic control systems, but if I can bring that to an extreme, we could convert VR tech into advanced and small control systems, allowing materials to be saved on all that clunky analogue control systems. Only problem is I do have to take everything I have learned and bring it forward to double in biological engineering and some medical work."
"That's absolutely amazing, while I might have a lot of course work myself, if you ever need any help with your research. I would be more than happy to work with you!" Emma gave a soft but excited smile looking up at Sapphire. While the two are the same height to her Sapphire seemed larger than life in her lofty ambitions and concepts for research. "I don't know much about the biology field if you ever need some schematics or programming. I'm always here to help."
Sapphire smiled some more "I always could use someone to help out when available. I have a few more ideas that are all in theory currently, but instead of going with VR to control robotics or bionics, go AR and create a neuro network where in theory we could communicate far faster than our words ever could. On paper with how fast the brain CAN process information, we could for instance have a full conversation in the time of a single breath."
"It would allow for sharing of all kinds of information. It would likely even be able to take people who normally would have no hope of any form of education and be able to teach them at rates no one could even imagine. With this technology you're describing collages would become entirely obsolete." Emma had a wide eyed smile on her face as the two talked about this getting caught up in the endless possibilities of this kind of technology. "I would love to see the work you have done on this so far sometime it truly sounds revolutionary."
Sapphire pulls up some notes...all safe if anyone discovered them. "That would be an idea...of course we would need to show testing of long term use to see how the human brain handled it. But this if perfected like you said, would make schools irrelevant, teachers could hook up from home and just upload the information to students. While on one hand, we could fully digitize the information, I do believe that having one who already knows it transferring the knowledge would provide a more natural medium to receive from. The VR control would do wonders for those who are paralyzed to properly use bionics to move again. Honestly I have many problems with the schooling system as a whole" She sighs a little "It is quite outdated and inefficient, purely designed at its core in order to get attendees used to working in a factory setting, while doubling as an inefficient babysitting system."
"I have to agree. I've had many clashes against the schooling system as I grew up. Kids bullying me for being smarter than them along with teachers trying to prevent me from getting too far ahead of the class. It's a frustrating system that has shown no signs of changing or improving. At least once you enter college you can learn actually useful skills albeit with a ton of caveats and pitfalls of its own." Emma sighed, shaking her head a bit before standing up and looking at the notes Sapphire had pulled out to show off. "Wow, these are theories I haven't even seen most teachers address."
"That is because I have kept these away from the teachers. One time I showed some of mine and it would threaten their jobs, so they started to tear down my thought process with pointless drivel. I decided that while I have my 'for school' thesis papers, much of my work for the future would need to wait. Luckily I have quite a build-up of cash and the only thing stopping me from starting my own company to put these into production, is a messed up political system that is gating my doing so behind having a degree, otherwise, I would be sued for all I have."
"Well if no one else will you can consider me your first supporter. I don't have a relationship with my family anymore and most of my friends went off to do far more... pointless jobs. So I have plenty of time and energy to help if you would want or need it, and I promise I won't talk about this to any of the professors." Emma continued to look through the notes proving to be actually intelligent pointing out a few changes that needed to be made for better data flow in the notes.
Sapphire grins wide "Why thank you, my parents passed away when I was younger. While I got the inheritance, I've been using the life insurance left to me to perform my transition and schooling. All my 'friends' were just the kids of my parent's friends. Several arranged marriages to 'build family relations'" She growls out "Don't get me wrong, it's sad that they died, but I took the opportunity to finally take control of my own life. I don't care for 'High Society' or any of that shit."
"Well, they did sound pretty awful. My family just found out about my transition and disowned me for being a 'fag' and well my 'friends' all mysteriously dropped off contact with me as soon as I came out." Emma sighed, shaking her head. "Well I've said it once and I'll say it again you've got my support, Sapphire. I don't have any money to speak of that I haven't been forced to spend on college but I can see you going places with these theories and concepts and want to help you get as far as you can!" She gave a little thumbs up. "But for now we got so caught up talking this last hour that I forgot to go get my stuff from my car so I'm gonna go unload and set my room up now it was really nice meeting you."
Sapphire smiles and gets up "Come on, I'll help you, it's been a while since I've been able to talk to someone on even a pretend level as me. I think when we get finished up, I would like to offer you a job. I will need some help from people who can at least understand what I am doing." She follows Emma out to start unloading her car. "Family is what you make of it, if they didn't want anything to do with you then they aren't worth your time Emma."
The car is rundown and has only a simple box tv along with a few suitcases and boxes in it. "Don't get me wrong I wish they hadn't fully rejected me but they were shit anyway the only real loss was losing their support for going to college." She sighed, pulling out a few of the suitcases and starting to carry them up while they talked. "Well I don't mean to sound odd but in my experience, most people are closed-minded idiots so meeting someone who is actually nice and smart is... unusual and I'm very happy I have."
