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

Two Sundays ago, I thought up a solution for our problem needing ramp downs in the lab experiment on errors needing 30 trials. I bought one of those plastic hollow detachable hula-hoops that we could just cut open and attach to the iron stands.

Tuesday I showed them to David and he didn’t say they wouldn’t work. Of course, in the first place, David is an engineering graduate.

Friday during David’s lab class (with my cousin as a student) I handed out the materials the students would need for the experiment from the supply room.

This class had four groups, just like the first Wednesday group. The second Wednesday group only has three groups. I’m hoping new students don’t show up for that class next week, as adjustment ended last week.

We also removed the horizontal bars connected to the iron stands on the tables because the students were playing with them.

The rest of the time I sawed off the ends of the plastic hoop segments and attached them with just rubber bands to the clamps to be connected to the iron stands. They seem to work. On Wednesday we’ll get to use them already.

I also fixed up the supply room, putting a lot of the set-ups that were on the floor into the glass cabinets, although for three cabinets I had to remove the shelves so that they would fit. The air tracks for the collision experiment I’m planning to put up on top of the cabinets. For now they’re on the floor.

On the other side of the room the equipment for the electronics lab were on the floor where David had put them, including the Lego Mind storm sets. He had realized (just like I did in our lab) that with more than just the engineering students using the lab (for robotics), most of the equipment had to be kept out of reach of the more curious students. He also asked me for help giving out the materials to the students for his Tuesday and Wednesday morning robotics classes.

I started putting locks on the cabinets, but David’s students finished before I could set all eight of them. I finished that yesterday. I also labeled the keys as to which cabinet it opens. They used correction fluid on the black keys before, and just labeled the cabinet glass with masking tape A to F. I could have used the same system or convert to that eventually, but for now I just used a number of dots placed on the keys (and the cabinets) with a whiteboard marker.

I put the rings of keys in one of the cabinets, and I just carry around the key to the cabinet with the rest of the keys. I learned some time ago that that’s one way to lessen the number of keys I have to bring around.

This was also on the same day that I was tasked to double check the inventory of all the labs (including Biology, Chemistry and Electronics) to see that the equipment required by the Commission on Higher Education were present.

The most difficult part, of course, are the consumable chemicals in the Chemistry and Biology labs, which have to be replenished at least to the specified amounts.

There’s no rest for the materials requisitioner coordinating science and engineering labs.