"Still, that sounds a good bit further than most Shirefolk roam, and most of us never settle anywhere even when we do leave. And you're academy educated? That's quite exciting!"

A well traveled, educated young lady? She was certainly someone Bilbo would take a liking to, and truth be told Frodo felt likewise. He was accounted quite well-read for a Hobbit, and the Baggins had the largest library in the Shire, but he'd never been sent to a formal academy. The nearest one not run by and for the Elves was likely in Gondor, and he certainly wouldn't have had the option to attend that.

"What are you studying, if I may ask?"