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

It’s the first day of the third term for this school year, and I just found out what will probably be my finalized load for this term.

I have two mechanics lecture classes, one after the other, which is my only old preparation for this term.

I also have Advanced Mathematics for Engineering students. From what I have seen of the syllabus, it starts out with a review of determinants (up to five variables) then goes into Fourier series.

Besides that there is Electromagnetic Theory, which I already met. These are basically the same students who were my students in Electricity and Magnetism two terms ago, minus the two that I failed and the four who failed in Electric Circuits One last term, leaving seven, which still includes my cousin.

In fact, with the addition of two more, this is also my class in Advanced Math.

The syllabus says from vectors in three dimensional space and spherical and cylindrical coordinates, we proceed over the same topics that we did two terms ago, except that now we will be dealing with their differentiated and integrated aspects.

Lastly I also have one of the two sections for Introduction to Robotics for the first year Engineering students. Unlike what David did last year, which was to have both circuit design and programming (to which the engineering and the computer science students – for whom it was an elective – exclusively excelled) we are redesigning the course to deal with the more basic motors and sensors for creating a variety of simple robots. Then the rest of the class hours will be “project based”.

All of these students were in my Trigonometric Applications and Graphics One classes during the first term, weaned out from those who have not yet taken up their second Computer Programming course, which is a pre-requisite for this one.

Analytic Geometry, which was on my plate when the tentative load assignment was handed out last November, eventually got scooped up from the table in front of me.

Same with two mechanics laboratory classes, which, for once are not limited to the Wednesday schedule (except for one of the four sections offered).

By the end of last term I heard that I was down to one lab subject, but now I have none.

Not that it means I will not be thinking of this subject altogether. Technically I am a coordinator for this subject because my co-teacher to which this was assigned, Engineer Edna, hasn’t taught this subject before.

The same is true with Bio-environmentalist Bjorn, who is handling Trig App for this term, also for the first time. At the very least I was able to dump half a dozen reference books from my cubicle to his.

Other than that there were still people who were going for their academic advising, which I will detail next time, along with the failures in denial from last term.

For now, we’re out of time, so class dismissed.