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

First day of the second week of the second term: I met with my mechanics lab class, the first of two sections. Since there is a minimum of ten students required to be enrolled in a non-block class for it not to be dissolved, I don’t know how we are going to remedy this when only eight are enrolled here and two in the other section.

Why were there two sections offered in the first place? Even with the anticipation of some communication arts students not dropping, my estimate would have been for only one of the classes to be filled.

Now those enrolled in the other class really have to be move and drop the conflicted subjects.

There was also the problem of the students not having gotten a copy of the manual, even from their friends who have taken up the subject. The bookstore seems to have neglected to order, of course, since it was only decided to open a section for this on the first week of classes.

So we really didn’t do anything for what was supposed to be the second meeting, except gather their notebooks and set more procedural rules for the term, including the consideration (or lack thereof) for late students and those who will not be able to make it to the quizzes at the start of each meeting.

At least I won’t have a session where there is no quiz, and they will have to prepare for the next (or first) one.

I was just staying in the faculty room in the afternoon when one of the students of the lecture class told me that it was time for our session already.

I thought it had already been passed on to one of the part time teachers who was informed of the additional load, so I asked the associate dean about it. She said I was now handling it, and not going to teach differential calculus.

Path of least resistance strikes again.

Thankfully the first lecture of the class did not need that much preparation, and the fact that there were only nine of them (one was absent, or walked out at one point) made it easier to teach.

And they already took up unit conversion in trigonometry before. So I concentrated on the secondary units (using two or more quantities or the exponential, up to three, of one), scientific notation and Greek or metric prefixes.

It was cozy because of the small class size, just like with the Interfacing class. This part of the term will be a breeze.

Session 765 is now out of stock. Class dismissed.