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

Just a few more tidbits from Thursday before I start talking about Friday: first of all, I had to meet the sociology class of Marj the guidance councilor immediately after my Trig App class, who left for a family emergency in the morning.

Some of the students who were there also came from my previous class, so the eventual joke about continuing the lesson from earlier was brought up.

That just meant that for that day, I had my lunch at half past 1pm.

For the mechanics class, they were surprised when I announced during the exercise towards the end of the period that we had finished the first chapter of the textbook, and that we will be starting with the second chapter (motion in one dimension) next meeting.

There were some upperclassmen who had taken up the subject before who were offering their own textbooks either for sale or for rent at a substantially discounted price of a new book. But they told the freshmen that they would have to approach the president of the Young Educators’ Society some other time about the exact price, since she had already gone home.

This time, just like in my previous classes, I’m taking no chances and writing down the exact instructions on the board for the benefit of those who are taking notes, instead of relying on several examples to show how the computations are done.

This is particularly in writing numbers in scientific notation and vice versa.

Afterwards, since one of the examples we had defined a micro-century as being a close approximation of an hour, they started using the term in their conversations (“what micro-century will you be going home?”).

There was also the matter of a sophomore student adjusting again, needing to drop one subject whose schedule had been changed since he last assessed two weeks ago his list courses to be taken for this term.

He insisted on having no classes on Fridays, which was the source of the complication.

I tried to show him the long term effect of his preference: that it would be difficult for him to finish the required amount of units in time to graduate with his batch mates, and that by intentionally delaying his finish, he would be forced to pay larger tuition fees than if he took all possible subjects now.

Not that he was persuaded though.

Another student also showed me a letter that her teacher in Filipino gave her because she (the student) missed the first day of class due to being excessively late, even though she was in the class list at that time.

The letter was generic, but had blanks where the teacher wrote what she had missed during the session, and how it would relate in the framework to the future lessons. I wonder if she gave that to even the students who belatedly enrolled.

That’s it for today. Class dismissed.