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

One thing I forgot to mention about my previous lecture in Trig was that I have started what I hope to be the habit of answering the previous lesson’s exercise before proceeding with the next lesson.

This I believed to be especially helpful for the last activity that we had, where they were supposed to complete the table of co-terminal angles of a certain angle measure given, and they got somewhat confused (or negligent) of the definitions of complementary and supplementary angles.

Also, for the negative (or clockwise) angles, I had to show them that there was more than one answer for the smallest angle and the multiplier to 360 degrees to get the answer.

What surprises me is that talking to some of the students who took the same subject under Maila during the first and/or second term, they said that my lecture was very fast (even the one from last term!) and that the focus of topics was different.

I don’t understand though. I’m just using a copy of the course outline and one of the reference books that Maila lent me.

Now, back to Wednesday: this is the day where I have to make up for all the late-day classes I get for the rest of the week. I’m in the computer laboratory at 8am, and I don’t leave until 2pm. This is because of the two GRAPONE (Graphics I) sections I was assigned, which is up from one since the computer room can only take thirty slots and there are almost forty students.

Good thing the students are only supposed to perform the exercises I give them on how to use the software (much like a science lab class), otherwise I don’t think I’ll be up to lecture for six straight hours, even with the pleaded fifteen minute break in between.

But as 230pm rolls by, I’m back in the lab room again for electricity and magnetism hands-on. I’m just fortunate there are only 11 students and 3 groups, plus we have a new laboratory technician on hand to help with the distribution of the equipment, which means that I don’t have to hover over David’s mechanics lab class from 11am-2pm. I already have left the biology and chemistry lab sessions to the fates.

I’m also blessed that more than a fourth of the students in this lab class have had previous experience with electrical circuits (either from a technical high school like the one I studied in, the college they transferred from, or – in my cousin’s case – the college he finished a two-year degree program in), and that they already have a backgrounder on schematic diagrams and how to connect the components from their introduction to robotics course last term.

That subject, in fact, has already given them a familiarity up to programmable ROMs.

Just like David’s mechanics lab earlier (composed of almost half repeaters), we finished early, also in part because I was able to assist them more than I could have last term.

The activity we did for yesterday, by the way, was VOM familiarization, for which we only had one VOM to pass between the three groups because I don’t know where David kept the rest when he used them last term.