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

Didn't have Graphics One from 8-11am yesterday because of a Study Habits and Time Management seminar that all the freshmen were required to attend.

I tried to catch up on checking their diskettes and making the next exercises but I was only able to finish three (numbers thrity-six to thirty-eight - #37 was 21 pages and 59MB uncompressed). I had to tell the 11am-2pm class that they could save the files in the hard disk first and I'll just give them their disks during the class as I sat in the back still grading them.

That's the last time I'll postpone the work earlier just because I thought I had three extra hours on the day itself.

I'll continue with yesterday's story first.

It turned out that I didn't have to be vigilant about Dudley cheating during the test after all, because he could only get 8 out of 50 points in whatever he could copy from his notes. Conversion and verification takes analysis, which cannot be copied from any crib sheet.

He was the first to pass his paper, and he even showed me his nearly blank paper. Not surprisingly, he asked me about the number of future quizzes we'd have, and after I told him, he said, "Then it's cancel the lowest, right?"

"I never said anything like that," I answered. He said he was concerned that he'd fail because of his performance. I said and kept repeating that he could catch up in the later tests.

He even tried one last lie about thinking that the quiz was on Thursday. Not that I would have given him any leeway for that. It's his responsibility to know when the exams are, and besides, I saw him being tutored by one of the three Dean's Lister upperclassmen from the Young Educators' Society the day before.

On to Deiv peeves, he only asked me something twice during the quiz. First was about whether something he had solved was already simplified or not. I just reminded him simplified meant one fraction for common denominators.

Later he asked me if he could get more points in the first part if he wrote down the secondary identities besides the main ones. I said no to that as well.

During the 1-230pm quiz the student who scheduled his oral report in the morning but didn't show up passed by to say that he woke up late. We set his report for immediately after my class, even though I know he had another class (Filipino) at that time.

Same is true with the second reporter earlier, who I knew to have an Advanced Computing class then. I don't know if I should not have allowed them to set their reports at those times.

And that's all the time we have for today. Tomorrow I guess I'll talk about the Galvanometer experiment we had in Electricity and Magnetism laboratory yesterday afternoon, and my assignment to them for the next experiment (magnetic fields).

For now, class dismissed.