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

Yesterday I also rode the shuttle with a girl who turns out to be a new transferee from the nearby all-girl college. The person-in-charge at the registrars actually passed by the faculty room just to introduce her around. She was also in my 11am lab class.

In the afternoon, the registrar’s actually called me up to say that the girl had already credited her algebra class, which was a prerequisite for my science course. She asked if it was okay with me. I said yes, not seeing the problem because I knew that was the case in all the flowcharts of the students’ courses I’ve seen. And I didn’t want to take up any more time trying to find out what the big deal was.

There is also something I forgot to mention about the 2 mechanics lecture and 3 lab classes I’m handling this term: each class is a mix of ECE, CS and BA students. In the sign up sheet, there are a limited number of allocated spaces for students of each course.

That’s why when Justin, a student of mine in Math last term, asked if he could join the 11pm lab class instead of the 2pm one (where he was enrolled) because he had a long vacant from his 8-930am class, I told him to go ahead because as far as we knew, only 12 students were enrolled in the 11am class.

Afterwards he told me he couldn’t transfer because according to the registrar, the 11am class already had its full allotment of BA students.

As far as I know, Justin is also the only BA student who is taking up Introduction to Robotics as his elective instead of Basic Web Design.

In the first meeting of my TrigApp class yesterday, I found out that almost half of the students were those who failed under Maila last term. Half were those who passed the prerequisite subject I taught during the same time, and two are new students.

Already, two of the potential slackers showed themselves when they were late for the class, despite the fact that one of them told me that the mom of another student, Brian (the only one who failed in my Computer Graphics class last term due to absences and non-completion of requirements) asked him to see to it that her son attend all his classes.

In my mechanics lecture classes, I laid out all the policies for the term, including disregarding the maximum number of allowable absences as laid out by the student handbook, emphasizing that I don’t give make up exams and not accepting latecomers during an exam if someone has already passed their paper and left the room. I told them it was up to them to arrange with their classmates if no one was to submit their exam until everyone had arrived.

I also told them that the textbook was not required, but that the questions in the texts will be based on the examples given in the book, so it was up to them if they wanted to practice solving the problems there.

That’s all the time I have for now. I’ll continue tomorrow.