"Studies- what, you mean essays and lab work? Pah. I'm ahead on all of that." Doesn't need to show up to get the principles and they let him get away with only popping in for the tests and leaving. It's a weird little system he's developed with his professors but so far? It's worked out for the better. He gets his actual work done, gets the academia out of the way, and has time to invent whatever the hell he wants.

Like AI and engineering assistants and...better designed prosthetic arms. Which is his new current obsession and not at all because Bucky is the hottest thing he's seen...ever? Ever.

"Come on, Buck Rogers, we'll swap addresses and promise rings after coffee and pie and- well Deb does awesome burgers if you're hungry?" He leans into Bucky's side for a second, nudging him to the door.