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

Yesterday in my electricity and magnetism class I gave them the whole period to finish solving their problem set, to be submitted at the end of the session instead of at the start like we had last time.

At the same time I wrote seven questions on the board that would serve as their reviewer for the quiz on Thursday, which starts from the potential of a dipole to shaped charges (not as cool as it sounds) to capacitance.

From the reaction of one of the better performing students in the class, it seems that they (or he, at least) would find the computation of the total capacitance from the series and parallel configurations relatively easy. I guess that means they will have a comparatively less difficult time when we start discussion Ohm’s Law and Resistors in Series and Parallel in class (especially after having been familiarized with the topics in the lab) - until we reach Kirchhoff’s Rules again, that is.

The thing is most of the questions I gave yesterday were more or less direct substitution of the formulas given.

The most complicated type of example (in my opinion) that I gave was one that asked them to get the capacitance of a hollow spherical capacitor and get the equivalent area (not even the length of one side of a square plate) for a parallel plate capacitor of the same capacitance and separation of plates.

We didn’t get time to discuss the answers, but I’m hoping that I will be seeing some students consult on solving them in the next few days, or if not, less (if not none) confused and forehead-wrinkled faces during the quiz itself because they have taken the time to review and answer the sample problems I gave them.

The secretary was absent yesterday, as well as the guidance counselor. For the first one I had to answer the phone when I was around, as well as receive (stamp and sign) the submissions of some students for their teachers who were not around, as well as tell others that their interview with the counselor had to be rescheduled for tomorrow.

Also absent was Cielo, the teacher for the computer mediated communications class, although when the students asked, I did not give them a definite answer as to her being in school but only said that I haven’t seen her since the morning.

I don’t know if it’s something they caught that’s been making the rounds over the weekend.

I also saw the final schedule for the acquaintance party on Friday posted all over the hallways. It will start with a mass at 3pm, so that means that all the classes up to 240pm (including both of my Trigonometry classes) will still have to meet beforehand. We’ll just be having a review slash graded board work recitation for the quiz on July 27 anyway.

What surprised me was that the tree planting seems to have been scrapped altogether, if not moved to the unveiling of the statue of the founder during the next week, still visible under construction from the windows of the faculty room and the classrooms.

At least we’ll finally move on to planning some other event after these two are done.