I spent the next four days asking people for help.
I asked my roommate, Hazel, to read my petition to the board. I asked a restoration student to check my notes. I asked Professor Wren for the original exercise forms. Each time, the words came out rough at first.
Each time, the world remained intact afterward.
Hazel circled a sentence on the petition. "You say they denied your work because Noah isn't a student. That's not quite right."
"They rejected it because the form wasn't on the ledger."
"Which is what happened," she said. "But the rule they cited was about off-campus partners. You need to show the rule doesn't match the facts."
I spent a night at the library searching the Conservatory's regulations. The reciprocal exercise rules applied to "any adult participant accepted by a l
