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

In my mechanics lab class for the ninth week of the second term, we had our fifth experiment, which is on the coefficient of friction.

First of all, the network for our linked hard drive in the faculty room, where I keep most of my previous files such as quizzes, was down. So I either had to wait for my co-teacher who was using the access terminal to finish, or I could use my back up.

In the second computer that I used, my back up storage was not registering immediately (or most likely, just taking a long time in being recognized and given task time) so I went to a third computer because I was already late for my class.

I didn’t have time to edit the former quiz. It had eight questions and was laid out four to a page, instead of six which was how I had set up the previous quizzes. So it took three pages to print instead of the usual two.

On the way to the lab classroom, I met the faculty attendance checker in the hallway, and I explained to her why I was only going to my class at that time.

When I got to the room I told the students that since they had a lot of time to “review” that someone should be able to get a perfect ten in the quiz already.

But it seemed not to be the case as the students all submitted their papers early, with no one sure of all their answers. And as we went through all the correct answers, it became apparent that no one got perfect.

In the case of the question about the “weights” used in the experiment, their answers were “slotted weights” and such, when in fact numeric values were being asked. There were also two yes or no questions that a lot of people got wrong.

So as an added incentive, I said that in the next quiz, the one (or more) that got a perfect ten would have his or her score multiplied three times instead of two.

I also had to change the loaded weights on the wooden block for the experiment, because the students were already having a difficult time coming up with weights to place on the hanging pan even on the first weight, which was seven hundred and fifty grams. So I changed it to a hundred fifty grams with the heaviest being six hundred grams.

Again that will have to be noted for next term when this subject is offered once more.

Session 849 didn’t get perfect in the quiz. Class dismissed.