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

On the third day of the second week of classes for the second term, I had my first non-introduction Graphics Two session – two three-hour sessions back to back.

I gave them the format for all of our plates for the whole term, and gave them a few samples of isometric drawing to orthographic views (top, front and right side only) and some simple illustrations that they had to answer for themselves, before I would allow them to work on the three “formal” works to be passed for that meeting.

There were some students who (looking for the easy way out again) asked if they could just photocopy or printout the template with the margins and all, and I said I will allow that the next meeting. But for now, it would not do any harm for them to measure and line the plates by hand.

I also told them that if the given measurements of the figure are too small for their plate, that they should scale the figure to make as much use of the paper as possible. In other words, wasted space equals deductions.

I gave them a centimeter wide internal margin they were not supposed to cross, but again, some could not “help it”. So I said I would be stricter with the rules next time. For these requirements, I will just give bonuses to those who were able to follow all the instructions.

I could not, in all conscience, just give them simple plates like practicing the alphabet of lines wherein there is no analysis on their part involved. Here there were two: projecting the three views and determining the best-fit scale.

Some students from the first class went overtime, even though I already cut their requirements down to two plates (the third plate, after all, used hidden lines which I decided to reserve until the third session).

And other students from the second class arrived early. I gave them different figures to work on though, that I made from scratch using the isometric dot grid, and not from previously taught material like the ones for the first class.

But I did not have time for lunch. Thankfully some students from the first class offered to buy me food from the cafeteria since they were going there – having been in the room as long as I have.

I still had noticeably less energy to be sarcastic to the second class though, during the repeat of the same questions from the first class. This day will prove to be more taxing that I first thought. I have to be better prepared in the succeeding meetings.

Session 769 gave the correct views here. Class dismissed.