If you were an acolyte (novice, student, whatever) at the Citadel, which three links would you first want to forge for your chain? Does the order matter? Do your choices reflect a desire to work with particular archmaesters?
In the books, I'm not sure students get to choose - do the archmaesters decide who studies what at any given time? But let's assume you have a choice.
Or would you rather be an alchemist?
From the wiki:
Maybe we need to speculate about the likely meanin