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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 first week of classes for the third term of school year 2005-2006, I had my first meeting with my general science requirement mechanics lab students.

Most of these were again freshmen engineering majors, who, according to the updated flow charts for this school year, are the first to take up mechanics.

After all, they finished most of the mathematics pre-requisites for the subject first.

Last year, by the way, it was the computer science majors who took this subject first, during the second term, while the engineering majors (now the sophomores) took it in the third term along with the business administration majors.

Two years ago, everyone in the whole batch (except for those who have not yet passed the pre-requisites, of course) took the mechanics subject at the same time during the third term.

Now, the computer science and business administration freshmen are supposed to have their general science requirement during the first term of their second year, or in four months’ time.

This term, by the way, according to their flow chart, the communication arts majors are supposed to take the subject also, but since there is the standing belief that a lot of people who shift to communication arts do so because of the minimum mathematics requirement (it used to be B.A. before C.A. was offered), I’m not surprised that not a lot of C.A. students took it.

Although there is at least two in my class, along with some B.A. second year students and transferees who do not want to wait until next term to take the class with the lower batches of their major.

Anyway, I gave them the standard first-day policies: quiz every meeting, missing the quiz meaning they’re considered late, they could get an old manual from the upperclassmen, large graphic notebook, and automatic failure for incomplete requirements or having more than two and a half absences.

First request of the term: setting the quiz fifteen minutes after the class has started. I didn’t say yes, but I didn’t say no either.

Session 929 didn’t say yes too. Class dismissed.