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

A continuation of Wednesday’s freshmen – upperclassmen acquaintance party announcement: yesterday there was a one-page clarification letter signed by Student Affairs Head Ronnie and posted beside the postponement notice that just said details could be gotten from the course and batch representatives.

I guess word of mouth still did not tell the story straight. Ronnie first assured everyone who paid that their money was well accounted for, and will still be used for the new schedule a month from now. He also reacted to the feedback he somehow received that the planned activities did not conform to the majority’s idea of an acquaintance party, which resulted in their not wanting to attend.

In light of this Ronnie now asked for the students to talk to their course and batch representatives to give their suggestions, and to volunteer their services.

And despite no official announcement about classes tomorrow having been called off because of the event, the notice still said, “Regular classes tomorrow.”

I heard at least one upperclassman tell his dorm mate that he can’t go home last night after all because there will be classes today. So at least one person was going to use the occasion as an excuse to have a three-day weekend.

I wonder if that means all of the previously set activities - the quiz bee, the dating game and the bingo – will still push through. I’m at least sure that the mass and the tree planting as well as the awarding of the Dean’s Listers will continue.

In my electricity and magnetism class yesterday I acquiesced to the students’ request for us not to have a graded recitation or start a new chapter, after their “killer” quiz in David’s Mechanics One class an hour and a half earlier.

We just had a group discussion/solving of the multiple-choice questions in the textbook based on the three chapters we’ve taken up so far.

There were ten students present, and it took them seventy-five minutes to determine the answers to fourteen items from the chapter on electric charge, some of the type “if charges A & B attract and charges B & C repel, do charges A & C attract or repel?”

I just gave them the questions to the other two chapters (electric fields and Gauss’ Law) as an assignment.

In other news, we (the Dean, Maila, David and I, along with some other science teachers) will have a meeting for the formation of the Task Force on Interactive Science on Monday.

I also received a text message from I guess an officer of the professional student organization that I was a member of all my college years, was a assistant treasurer then vice-president of and finally a faculty adviser for, will be having a grand reunion (the second such in history) on October 8. And they want my confirmation of attendance this early. Does that mean I will be asked to speak or something?

Lastly, the College of Computer Science undergraduate students doing their thesis on astronomy software want to meet with me to discuss the benefits analysis of their program. What the heck is that?