Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the second week of classes, in the middle of my Introduction to Robotics session, I should have seen as a portent of major upheaval the fact that the head of security entered the lab to deliver a message from the secretary asking for the syllabus for the Computer Architecture class.

Sure I knew the acting dean was in the campus, and was asking for the syllabi especially for the new subjects, but I did not expect that she would ask to interrupt teachers in session for them.

Good thing there is a computer connected to the local area network in the robotics lab that I was able to use to put final edits on the copy I was planning to submit if one of the computers in the faculty room had not had a hard disk crash the week previous.

I was putting finishing touches when the secretary herself showed up, and mentioned something about someone actually already waiting for half an hour for my document.

I still didn’t put the pieces together, until my co-teacher Al, who was assigned the Computer Systems Organization lecture class, and has been asking me to take it since last term when the tentative load was announced, sent me a message online that I will be handling his lecture class now, and Computer Architecture would be given to someone else, who just had a teaching demo.

Okay, so I’m letting go of a class with only half the number of students as the new one I’m going to be teaching, (since these are both Computer Science and Information Management majors, not just CS, which was COMARCH). But at least it could technically be considered as only one preparation (although not for residency-counting purposes) for both the lecture and laboratory components.

I don’t have to meet that lecture class until the third week of classes though, because Al already met them for three hours in one session this week (whose change of schedule was not approved by the dean), but I will be meeting the Architecture class again for the first meeting of the third week, because their new schedule (to accommodate the new part-timer) will not take effect until the middle of the third week. And I get to explain it twice to the students: once during the lab and again during the last Architecture meeting.

Session 951 also got switched teachers three weeks into the term. Class dismissed.