It's... not a lab so much as a cabin that happens to have some scientific equipment in it. I do have some personal lab space at both branches of the Abacus Institute, though. Not that I use the one in Ravenmoore for obvious reasons. If you feel like coming to Summerbridge at any point, I could show you around there sometime.
He's a smart kid. Mostly just wants to do his own thing, and I'm fine with that.
Nothing too weird that I've noticed yet. Although people seem to come from some vastly different places than where you and I are from. So that can be a little weird.