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

In the first meeting of my Computer Systems Organization laboratory class during the last day of the first week of the third term, I met them in the robotics lab.

I really have to count how many classes are being held in that room this term compared to last term. I know the number is higher.

In fact, one of my robotics classes is apparently in conflict with the electric circuits two lab, having been assigned the same room at the same time. And that means it’s a good thing the new engineering labs are going to be finished sometime within the next few weeks.

Adding to the engineering sophomores and upperclassmen, for the first time the engineering and Computer Science freshmen are using the room, and for the second time the Computer Science and Information Management third year students, which is the class I’m talking about.

So that’s almost twice the number of students that I have in the Computer Architecture lecture (hey, that rhymes!) class, and having almost all the same students in that first class.

There is at least one “regular” student who did not enroll in the lab because it was conflict (or the lecture was) with the intermediate course on databases he preferred to take first. There were also two transferees who, in their own admission to me, had taken up the topics in that class, although in their previous school it was under Architecture and not Systems Organization.

That means the acting dean or the head of the registrars did a good job in knowing what major courses from the transferees’ former school to credit.

But back to my class, I divided them into groups, and told them that the policies were the same as in my general science requirement mechanics laboratory class.

The book I assigned to them was the same one the engineering students (and I in my undergraduate years) used for the Switching Theory lab. The teaching material just went by another name.

Session 937 also had the present subject credited under another name. Class dismissed.