Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Walking through the campus today on the way to the department, I saw some of my astronomy students, most of them from the 230pm class. They asked me if I already checked their papers from yesterday. I replied in the negative. I guess they’re really that apprehensive about their performance this time around. After all, the sum of their scores in these two tests will comprise their midterm grade.

I didn’t have time yesterday to talk about my programming class. I haven’t returned their papers from their exam last week, but no one asked about it like in the astronomy classes. I did mention it in my lecture though, leading to the topic of nested if statements. I actually spent most of the period demonstrating for them how to use and format these, because when I was prepared to move to the next topic I asked if they wanted more examples, and they said yes.

At least with the later examples I was able to ask some students (for class participation points) to show the program listing from the flowchart given on the board.

And I did introduce the next topic already, which is the select-case statement, which I linked to their last computer lab exercise.

I just realized that somehow the political parties’ recruitment and campaigning for the freshie elections has passed me by. I guess this is due to the fact that I’m hardly my students’ first class anymore, which is being targeted by those trying to get the student council aspirants from among the freshies. That way, they’ll have made all of their classroom visits before lunch.

Noon, as all responsible upperclassmen know is the preferred and decent starting time for all classes as soon as they are in command of their own schedule and free from the restraints of block enrollment.

That reminds me of an announcement from the Vice Dean and the registrar’s office that I saw posted, about students informing them if and when they have caught up in their courses to rejoin the block. I was thinking it’s impossible, but I guess it can happen.
Not among my batch mates though.

Going back to the topic of classroom visits, there were those who knocked on my classroom door sometime last week asking to talk to the students for a few minutes. But this was not to advertise about first year representatives to the student council. It was for the Activity Recruitment Week, where all of the student organizations have booths in the basketball courts allowing members to sign up.

They were led by a former student of mine, now one of the officers of the Business Management Society. I guess that class (the 920am one) was a block of BM majors.

Since there were no classes on Tuesday last week, ARW for this year was actually from Monday to Monday, to give all the orgs five full days to get members.

The week before that it was the Cultural Arts groups: the Theater Guild, the orchestra, the pop band, the dance troupe etc. This week it’s the sports groups that are not varsity teams: like martial arts and bodybuilding. Out of place in their midst, though, is the booth for the Socio Civic Action office.