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

And instead of 10 weeks before I talk about Deiv again it takes one day.

I was talking to one of his batch mates today, Kristina, about moving the schedule of their Advanced Mechanics lecture class on Tuesdays to accommodate the part-time teacher who is handling it, since he is only free Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

After I had told her to prepare the preliminary groundwork of giving their teacher the available options already for the change of schedule (which turns out to be either immediately before or an hour and a half before their Friday morning class – not the first time there will be a one day three-hour lecture class set for this term) she went on to tell me that she was surprised that Deiv passed in my classes last term, and is their classmate in the post-requisite subjects again this term.

I was surprised that they thought Deiv would fail just because of how much he was keeping back the rest of the class during the discussions by always going back to other topics we have already finished with instead of staying with what the teacher is currently talking about.

Same goes for how much he was asking questions during the exam. Maybe they thought I already instituted the deduction for each reply I give. That will be fore next time they are my students, as well as the “get ready for the board exam” mentality where they cannot ask questions of the proctors.

I guess I believed it was punishment enough on his part that he got relatively low grades in both of the subjects, despite all his less than stellar shows of concern for the whole term about his class standing, and his last minute consultation. Complete attendance, no matter how his mother put it, is not enough.

But for now, let the other teachers attend to him, and his borderline inappropriate queries.

Now, on to better and brighter things that I can talk about.

The move of the Graphics Two classes I’m handling this term from the computer lab to the lecture hall, for one, where the students can perform manual drafting, is already underway, but it will start on the third week of classes because the venue is already reserved during the first two weeks of our term to the high school students’ recollections.

There are no sophomore engineering students enrolled in my Interfacing class, so I don’t have to worry about not being able to discuss concepts already taken up in their electronics subjects that the lower batches have not taken yet. So we can go all out with the intended projects.

Session 757 moves classrooms here. Class dismissed.