InCryptid Q&A, Part IX: College Days.

[seanan_mcguire]

So remember when I said that I would answer ten questions about the InCryptid universe? I'm almost done, but here's your ninth answer!

tylik asks

Comments

[kyrielle]

Thank you! This rocks! I'm betting some of the less human appearing cryptids love Coursera and other such sites. (Some. Some probably don't care in the least, even among the ones human-intelligent or greater.)

[seanan_mcguire]

Pretty much!

[hasufin]

I am a smidge perturbed by your repeated mention of cuckoos on campus. Mind, I'm wholly confident that there were none at my school - I don't think a cuckoo could have managed to be as socially maladjusted as our CS or math departments...

I do wonder specifically about Caladrius (Caladrii?). We've met two medically-inclined ones thus far, and the field guide suggests that's very probably their most popular vocation by far. However, unlike a Johrlac or Madhura, a Caladrius cannot possibly pass for human (well, okay, there's the wing amputation, but that doesn't fix the foot problem, and even the most dedicated student might balk at severe bodily mutilation in pursuit of a degree).
So, what do academically-inclined cryptids who cannot pass as human do? Distance learning will work for some things, of course, but do they have any other options?

[seanan_mcguire]

Caladrii cheat: they don't need medical school when they can heal with magic feathers. So they work with what they have, and they read a lot.

Right now, there are no all-cryptid colleges. Although I'm sure many of the less human, academically-inclined cryptids will be watching Monsters University and sighing longingly.