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

Rounding up the past few days, on the third day of classes for the second term, (I already talked about the conclusion I arrived at meeting my engineering juniors class on the second day of classes) I met with my Graphics Two students, most of whom I had already gotten to know in my Mathematical Methods One class last term. Of course, a few were also those sophomores who failed from last school year.

I told them about the change in the curriculum, which was initiated by some of the freshmen who are graduates of technical high schools (like the one I went to and came from) as well as some of their engineer parents asking about when they were going to have the old established and pre-computer methods of drawing. I also announced what they needed to bring for the next meeting, the basic drafting tools. In fact, they were so basic I didn’t even specify the different types of pencil leads, eraser shields, fundamental shape templates (as well as those for electric and electronic schematic symbols) and the technical pens that they will need for the latter part of the term.

These were the two sessions in the morning, the second of course supposed to be bleeding into and past lunchtime, if I had used up the whole period.

In the afternoon I met the lab component of the class I have for the engineering juniors, and just repeated the classroom policies such as the seventy percent passing rate and the automatic failure for incomplete requirements. For the group reports, I just asked them to bring folders with fasteners, and either one large math notebook they can tear pages from, or a whole sheaf of graphing papers.

Forty minutes after that I met the mechanics lecture class again, although at that point I already knew (and they didn’t) that I wasn’t going to be handling the class because of its conflict with the engineering junior lab class.

But the students didn’t know that. As I mentioned in a previous post, their teacher, who is part time, still has to iron out only going to school for a minimum number of days a week. So I just told them things that I knew the other teacher would not change, such as the passing rate and the textbook.

But the rest of the time I told them about the lab policies, since I knew I would handling those. I gave the requirements for next week, which are the lab manual, a group notebook and a group diskette.

I was supposed to give them a five percent per day bonus or deduction for early or late submission of reports respectively, until students in Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab class who were sitting in said it was ten percent, which means they get a zero for anything passed eleven days late. So the rest of the students were thankful for that clarification.

Session 759 was passed late here. Class dismissed.