Given that you're teaching your first class as a tenure-track professor, you want to make sure it's the best class you can offer. Your student evaluations will be part of your tenure portfolio, after all.
You lean on your skill with reasoning, making sure that every class session is founded on solid logical chains laid out plainly for the students. You're rewarded with a large upswing in student engagement and interest in summoning.
December comes. Realizing that you and Gabriel haven't made as much progress on your research and his training as you wanted, even with the time you spent on your research, you eye your start-up funds. With the right purchase of Repro pre-made patterns, you could speed your research. You could also buy training materials to fill holes in Gabriel's experience.
The pre-made patterns would run $1,000, as would the advanced training materials for Gabriel. You've got $1000 start-up funds remaining. Both are out of the question, and even one will leave you short on funds for the coming semester. Still, it may be worth it.
I buy the pre-made patterns