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

Because of a conflict with one of the mechanics laboratory classes, the Graphics Two classes were not given to me but to another teacher. This is despite the fact that since I gave a failing grade to a fourth of the class, the remaining students eligible to enroll in the classes could already have fit in the computer lab.

After all, the reason the classes were split in the first place was because there were more than thirty-six of them, which is the total number of terminals in the lab.

But that technicality aside, there is one reason why I was glad not to be handling the class >cough< Deiv >cough<.

That doesn’t mean I’m still not involved though. In fact, I volunteered to still continue making the exercises the same way that I did in the Graphics One class. My co-teacher agreed to it anyway because first: the way I handled the class last term already works (maybe not perfectly, but at least well) and second: he understands certain obsessive compulsive behavior that makes teachers prepare notes for a series of consecutive subjects. Besides, who knows, maybe I will be handling the class again next year.

That is, again, if it does not conflict with the mechanics lab classes, which is the Computer Science freshmen’s new flowchart, is in the second term of their first year instead of in either the third term of their first year or the first term of the second year, as it was last year.

There is also the added change that last year, (I think I’ve mentioned this before) the Graphics Two classes met twice a week at an hour and a half each instead of three hours straight like it has been since last term.

What I find a lucky coincidence is the fact that even though last year I started an a different point in the manual (earlier, actually) compared to where I stopped with Graphics One last term, the numbering of the exercise files I still have from last year are the same as this year.

This could be attributed to the fact that last year there was at least one session where I had to resort to graphing in spreadsheet software because of a delay in the installation of the monthly license for the software we are using.

I only have to change the numbering to reflect the fact that I am expecting to reach a three-digit numbering in the exercises, because, since we finished fifty exercises in Graphics One this school year, and we only finished twenty-eight exercises (well some of them did anyway) last year, I’m expecting to make at least twenty more new exercises, excluding the “complete as shown” (with minimal instructions) plates that could be used for exams (there are enough to give midterms now) and provided the manual contains that many.

In the case that the manual contains more though, the required number of exercises to be finished per meeting and for the whole term will have to be increased though.

My co-teacher, an engineering graduate, also plans to follow the policy that was used when he was studying, which is that the passing for laboratory classes (experimental or computer) is seventy percent. I’m certainly hands-off on that, and I’m not going to complain, even if my cousin is in that class.

And that’s it for now. See you tomorrow, pupils.