Thread:Marvelus/@comment-26838855-20190116120806/@comment-3095612-20190404114344

BEJT wrote: I was sure I had a memory of Simmons saying they met on the first day of the academy but again, rusty on Season 1 and Season 2, Part 1, and absolutely happy to trust you on this.' Now I'm getting doubtful. ;)

BEJT wrote: How about: Yes, that's along the lines of what I was I thinking. As for your last point, I'm sure Candyman intended on joining S.H.I.E.L.D. when he enrolled in the Academy but he washed out and never did. Being a student at the academy puts on you track to becoming a member of the organization at large but it doesn't make you a fully fledged bonafide member. But to your point, I think you're probably overthinking it. All Bakshi said was, "Why did you join S.H.I.E.L.D. in the first place?" and Simmons replied, "I was a 17-year-old girl with two Phds and a million questions. S.H.I.E.L.D. had the resources to help me answer them." An academy graduate's decision to join S.H.I.E.L.D. is a formality like an athlete signing a letter of intent.
 * Summer 2002 - Fitz finishes school at the end of Year 10 (most people in the U.K. at his age before the law changed would finish at the end of Year 12 or 13 (now it's just 13), so he'd be a couple of years early). Simmons should technically be in the school year below because she's September but they sometimes make exceptions and since she's so smart I wouldn't be surprised if they made her the youngest in the same school year as Fitz rather than one of the oldest in the year below, so let's say also finishes at Year 10. Year 9 would be a big stretch.
 * Autumn 2002-Spring 2003 - First year at the academy, they don't meet.
 * Autumn 2003-Early 2004 - First half of second year (many universities change modules and therefore lecturers halfway through the year and so they didn't necessarily have Franklin Hall until early 2004.
 * Early 2004-Spring 2004 - Second half of second year, in which they share the chemical kinetics module and meet aged 16, 12 years (Simmons says "10") before Spring 2016.
 * Summer 2004 - They graduate early after just 2 years. Assuming 2004 is the graduation date and not the start date, I don't think they can have started back in 2001 because that's very early to leave education and also it would mean that they had to have met each other by Spring 2003, since they shared a module in second year, and that's pushing "10 years" and also when they are 15, not 16. Simmons now has two PhDs.
 * Autumn 2004 - Simmons decides to join S.H.I.E.L.D. aged 17. This is still a sticking point for me, because surely if you go to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy you've already decided you want to join S.H.I.E.L.D..