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

Today is rush day for the fully booked classes that I have tomorrow. That's two classes of Graphics One in the morning until 2pm, then the Electricity and Magnetism laboratory class in the afternoon. There are only fifteen minutes of break time between each of those three three-hour classes.

I just finished making the documents for the first three and a half exercises in graphics, and uploaded them. Of course, first order of business tomorrow will be telling the students to register online to be able to download and de-compress them (otherwise one of the files would have been 25MB all blown up and would have taken most of the period just to save into their terminal).

Good thing I'm just having the boardwork-slash-review for the Trigonometry class later, in preparation for their fifty-point quiz on Friday.

I don't think everyone will get a chance to participate though, because just today, coordinating my class list with the registrar's office, I found out that I have forty two students in that class. How many of them are fresh from high school and how many of them are transferees from other colleges I don't know, but I can find out if I really needed to.

At least today I will already be able to distribute their class cards, as the new batch that has been ordered for printing has arrived. It will be the first of the four other sections I have that haven't gotten course cards yet, the other three being the ones I will meet tomorrow.

I will also be telling them that there will be an additional incentive for those who will give their pictures for the class card before Thursday. After all, they are a large class and I will need more than names and the extremely high or low scores they will be getting to distinguish them. But since these are the same students who are in my graphics class (with a few exceptions among the upperclassmen - including my cousin) I will not be requiring them a picture in the other subject.

For the electricity and magnetism lab class, I still have to grade and give them back their manuals for their reading preparation before going to class tomorrow. That means I also have to type up, print out and cut the quarter-paper-sized questionnaires.

David, I learned from his students, is recycling the same pop quizzes we used in mechanics lab last term. That is, at least for his first lab activity. That's already a big plus for his previous students whom he failed and are repeating the course. That is, unless he notices the change in their scores and adapts his evaluation material accordingly.

Another thing that I have to make for the lab is the assignments of the leader and secretary role for each experiment, as well as for the written reports.

I'm still thinking if I can have the off-campus activity of showing them where they can buy the basic electrical compoments, such as soldering lead, resistors, and alligator clips that they will be using in several of the experiments. Almost two-thirds of the class will be able to benefit from that informative trip, not just for this term, but for several of their succeeding subjects of which this one is a pre-requisite.

And, at this point I have spent enough time dawdling on the net. I should proceed to my quick lunch before getting back to my preparations.