No problem. I hope you feel better.
Yeah it seems that when I studied a few times the game talked about how Luc found the subject tough but studying helped. This has me thinking that we'd have to balance social/guardian duties with keeping our grades up in school.
Since researching monsters and learning new magic takes multiple time slots I was thinking that higher academics could reduce the number of time slots needed to learn them. Like investing in academics early will make learning these skills much easier later on.