"What a shame..." She sounds as if she's hardly paying attention for a moment as she observes the students some more, and there's a delayed reaction to the intro.

"Catherine Halsey." Handshakes are acceptable, so Catherine will juggle her things so that she has a hand free enough to shake. "I'm in research and development, for the most part. I've hopped a few Shatterdomes, helping with the incoming pilots and making sure they're fit for duty." And now she's here. Seems like an odd fit, at times, but she works hard, noticeably hard.