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

Day 3 Week 3 Term 2: I gave the new set of three plates to my first Graphics 2 class in the morning, this time needing to provide the orthogonal views for objects whose isometric drawing includes some slanted or diagonal lines, not just horizontal and vertical blocks like last time.

As usual, I provided three simple figures they had to show me just to see if they have already grasped the concept.

What made this different from last week was that an hour into the three-hour class, there were already students from the next class arriving.

It seems that their class at the same time as my first class, Intermediate Computer Programming Lab, finished early. I guess their programming exercise was very easy then. So at the prospect of going home earlier than usual, they decided to see if they could already get a head start on their second class.

I gave no thought to the first handful of students who trickled in. But after that, I had to take into consideration that there might not be enough tables for them to work on. In fact, I had to ask some of the later arriving students to get an additional table from the neighboring lecture hall.

And at around the two-hour mark, I was like a maitre d’ in a restaurant telling new entrants about recently vacated seat.

At the very least, it became so that I did not have to make a new set of plates for the second class, just like I did last week.

It also did not mean that I left early. I still stayed in the classroom the entire two periods, only having a proper lunch at two in the afternoon.

Something I had to emphasize to the students was that they did not have to compute for the length of the diagonals, because from the orthogonal views, the diagonals would be seen as having the length of either the horizontal or the vertical sides, just like they learned in trigonometry.

For the case of a cube sticking out of a wedge, I also had to clear it up with some students that it was one continuous figure and not with an inverted wedge floating atop the larger one. But I’m already keeping an eye on those “out of the box” thinkers who went for that conclusion. Maybe they’ll come up with something new for our next celebration of Innovation Week.

I also returned their previous plates to them, and reminded them about the rule (they are familiar with from my previous classes) of collecting all requirements in a plastic envelope for the whole group.

Session 783 is able to finish the assigned plates and programming exercises early today. Class dismissed.