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

On the first of three days of the college students’ play held from 3pm onwards, their audience was their peers. The students (both on and off stage) were behaved for the most part except for some pre-determined moments, such as when two of the actors were holding hands or sitting beside each other on the couch, and their classmates were jeering.

On the second day, they had two shows, one at 3pm and another at 7pm. No one showed up for the 3pm show though, except for some of those who were supposed to be ushers, and the janitorial staff who wanted to watch.

It wasn’t until two valid “guests” arrived at past 4pm that they actually got the show underway.

It ended thirty minutes before the next show, where it was most of their parents who watched.

On the morning of the third day, they put up the last performance for the high school students at 8 in the morning. Of course they were excused from their classes at that time.

Three hours later I had my second Advanced Mathematics lecture for the ninth week of classes of the third term. This one was already held in the Robotics lab for us to be able to use the computers for graphing.

Unfortunately, two-fifths of the computers in the room could not be used. One just wouldn’t start, while the other did not have the requisite software we needed to use.

They were only able to use as many computers as were unavailable though, because one fifth was also reserved for use of the teachers. Not that I used any of them at that time.

I already preloaded the file we were going to use before they showed up. So all they had to do was analyze the graphs presented therein.

Only half of the groups present had the initiative to use the other functions offered by the graphing software we were using, such as finding the minimum and maximum values of a column of numbers. At least that half, or some of the students in that group, weren’t averse to helping their classmates who were having a relatively more difficult time arriving at the same answers.

There was also the additional change to the formulas of just entering the first and last values of an interval to be graphed, just to be able to see where the graph crossed the x axis going upwards or increasing in value, when looking for the phase or time shift.

I’m already thinking of making their exam for those topics in that subject hands on so that everyone will be forced to learn how to analyze the equations from the computer program. I’ll also probably have to give them more examples that they will have to input in the graphing software themselves. But that will have to wait until next meeting.

In the following post I’ll talk about my mechanics lecture and Electromagnetic Theory exams and the start of academic advising for this term. For now, class dismissed.