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

I will take up again my story from yesterday. Finally, again on the eleventh hour but not quite the fifty-ninth minute, Deiv had told me that he was having trouble comprehending Kirchhoff’s Rules AFTER it had been part of the finals in Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism laboratory two days before.

Just like of that said finals he kept insisting to me that he did not know the equations for solving the currents and voltages in non-series and extra-parallel circuits.

I repeated what I answered him last time, which is that there are no equations, but those are rules for making the equations. And he only began to understand it on the day of the finals.

It may have been that it was sinking in to the part of his brain what I had been warning them about the post-requisite subject to INEMLEC and INEMLAB, which are Electric Circuits One and its lab component.

This subject, as some of the more unfortunate juniors before them had found out the hard way, is prerequisite to five more subjects that they are taking on the third term of their second year, which meant that if they failed it, they were actually down to less than twelve units for the next term, especially if there were no minors they could take otherwise.

But back to my story: We finally get through the node rule, otherwise known as the current rule I remember him telling me during our quiz about the experiment in the lab. He makes a big fuss about knowing the procedure enough to list them down, despite the fact that they are, in fact, all in their lab manual.

Then I explained the loop rule, still amazed that I was repeating almost word for word what I had already given in the lab almost a month before. Why do these students hesitate to tell the teacher that they do not understand the lecture, when I give them every opportunity and even ask every once in a while if they have any questions?

Deiv, by the way, displaying his unerring wrong sense of timing as ever, in the classroom always asks questions while I am still allowing them to copy the whole board, wherein my answer is always that I will explain it when I start the discussion, or, when I have moved on to the next topic and he asks a question about the previous topic that he is only copying at that time.

Maybe I should erase the board as I write, so he is forced to keep up. Otherwise I really do not know how to proceed in class to prevent him from that disruptive behavior.

Incredible. This tale will be concluded in another post. In the meantime, session 736 gets erased here. Class dismissed.