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

Last note about my first Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lecture for the term: at the end of the period I told them about how to get the electrostatic force for a system of three or more particles, which used the summation of vectors in two dimensions that we used all too well in our mechanics lectures last term, but I told them that we would be having examples on them next meeting.

The last lecture session for the Mathematical Methods 1 class for the first week of classes was on integer exponents, and starting on operations with polynomials.

There was one student, Leon, who took me to task about the signs before expressions in parentheses during the grouping of terms while adding polynomials. Sure it just seems that he’s a stickler to the rules, but I’m starting to get a bad vibe about the whole thing.

One thing I forgot to mention about the last meeting was that it was then that the students started passing their test booklets, when the first quiz isn’t until the end of the second week of classes. I guess I should have been more specific when I said which day of the week I wanted the booklets passed.

There have also been a trickling of students passing ID pictures, which I said will be a five percent (of their raw score) bonus in the first quiz.

I was also approached by some of the sophomores who are transferees into the school of engineering and those who I failed in Graphics One last year. They said there were about ten of them who waited for me to show up during the third day of the first week of classes for the 11am to 2pm class. I repeated what I had been told by the Registrars’ office, which is that that class, with only one student officially enlisted, has been dissolved.

In the final plantilla that the secretary made, it wasn’t in my load, but I still had eighteen modified units because of the “materials development” that accompanies anytime a teacher handles a subject for the first time, which is the case for me with Differential Equations.

It seems there is a misunderstanding with the cafeteria about their new hour of closing, because it is supposed to be extended due to the classes up to 730pm (such as my cousin and the engineering juniors’ Electrical Circuit Analysis during Mondays and Thursdays) and because of the residents of the dormitory.

One of my co-teachers told about how on her way home to one of the nearby subdivisions in the evening, she saw a few of the male students stuck at a waiting shed in the rain because they didn’t know where to get dinner. Hopefully they will have prepared for the succeeding nights after that, since the dorm pantry is to be stocked with a microwave oven.

Next time I’ll talk about the new lesson in MM1, the first lecture in DIFEREQ and the second lecture in INTROEM, and some adding, dropping and filing of leave of absence woes.

That puts session 610 in the can. For now, class dismissed.