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

Advanced Mathematics, second meeting, seventh week of classes, third trimester: We discussed the elementary types of Continuous-time signals, such as exponential signals, sinusoidal signals, unit step, signum and ramp signals.

Obviously classified as deterministic because of their definitive values, I specified when these signals could be real or complex (based on Euler’s Identity, which they said they had already been introduced to in their Basic Electronics lectures), that some books consider them discontinuous, and how they are affected by basic operations on the independent variable.

My second meetings for my mechanics lecture students for the seventh week of classes were given an alternative instead: attending the Candidates’ Presentation of Platforms that were held at the badminton courts instead of at the covered court, which was being prepared extensively for another event scheduled Wednesday.

It was still hot (there was not enough wind going through the area – obviously a plus for playing badminton) but at least the students did not have to walk under the noonday sun to get there.

I told the Commission on Elections co-chairman to start with those running for commissioner first, in alphabetical order. Then the candidate for secretary spoke up, and the two students running for vice president. Finally my cousin and one of the candidates for president showed up, fresh from their Basic Electronics class. My cousin addressed the assembly first, then George the Engineering student running for president. Last was Mae, the Business Administration candidate for president.

Conferring with the Director of Student Affairs, we held a fifteen-minute open forum.

Immediately the friend of Joseph, one of the candidates for vice president attacked most of the speakers for their casual obviously unprepared speeches, unlike those for president (one of who had a slide presentation like his friend).

I don’t know how that went with the audience, but it did not sit well with me. At least Joseph’s opponent countered by saying that he submitted his candidacy form in November, unlike Joseph, who skirted the deadline. Besides, Joseph’s computer presentation was not his, but of the party from his high school that he wanted to continue here.

Not surprisingly, Frank, the student who wanted to run for president despite being a freshman, spoke up. He wore a woolen bonnet, shorts, carried his knapsack and stuttered a lot in his questions, so it further bore out my decision not to allow him to run.

The second of his two questions (the first was utterly forgettable and inconsequential) again asked the presidential candidates what they thought about seniority, not in the restriction of nominees, but in the school in general.

But I will have to react to that next time. I just heard the bell, so class dismissed.