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

In my meeting for with the general science requirement mechanics lab class for the third week of the third term, we, of course, had the second activity, which was about errors.

It’s a good thing I have not yet finalized, printed out and posted the written report assignments, because not one student showed up for the first time in what was already the third meeting of the class, but two.

So there was actually one group that had five members. After all, the syllabus only said that there is a maximum of four groups and a minimum of three members per group.

It was also a relief, instead of a bother, for students to finally ask questions about the latter parts of the experiment while I was still explaining the first items in the procedure, because it meant for once that some people had been reading the manual before we performed the experiment.

My class also had its first casualty for the term; I don’t know about the other classes. One of the groups had their metal ball fall, not into the drains on the table as they were warned about covering up while performing the activity, but in the hole where the “permanent” iron stands used to be located before the students from two years ago turned them into loose air microphones during down times of their experiments.

If the tables were not bolted to the floor and completely enclosed, this would not have been a problem – the ball could be retrieved.

Then again, I don’t know if we are ever again going to have simple tables with four legs in the labs anymore.

That breaks the record of five terms that there have not been any losses of metal balls in the lab.

For once also, given the lousy submissions for the third activity, Graphs and Equations, that I have had the past two terms that it was just given as a take home requirement, I will be having the fulfillment of this activity in the lab, despite not needing any materials from the supply room other than probably a ruler.

I hope their results are better because of this.

Session 959 had lousy graphs. Class dismissed.