"Seeing other people is nice," you respond, "The theory classes are nice, the practical classes aren't much use, but I like them. It's interesting to see other cadets adapt to their Valkyrie Cores. Some electives are nice."
"Prac classes not cutting it for you, yeah that makes sense," nods Meyer, "Anything in particular you feel would improve them for you specifically?"
Remove the safeties. Real Antagonists to kill.
You give the matter some thought. How could you put into words the difference of the real battlefield and the simulated one? The difference in pressure, the difference in stakes, the difference of knowing that it was the nebulous intelligence behind the Antagonists who were deploying rather than an Instructor or human computer who likely was not going to make an impossible scenario? The constraints of being unable to use half of the techniques that you knew?