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

In the meeting of my Computer Systems Organization lab class for the ninth week of the third term, the groups of students once again just continued with their previously uncompleted experiments because I decided not to have them make the multiplexer and de-multiplexer circuits that we took up during the previous lecture class until they have completed the more basic applications.

This was also the meeting when I found out that one of the groups have brought their own breadboard already, besides the chips and wires that they shown me during the previous meetings, for the express intention of being able to catch up with the experiments by working on them at home.

This is because I do not allow them to bring the breadboards at home, and they have to schedule a special session in the lab when it is free and when I am also free to be able to work on catching up with their unfinished experiments.

What I have not had the heart to tell these Computer Science students is that according to their flowchart, this is probably the only time they will be able to use those equipment, since this is their only course that uses the engineering lab and the engineering lab equipment. So unless they make special projects for the succeeding Innovation Week set ups that involve the gates and computational slash combinational circuits we have been studying, or they shift to engineering, the equipment they bought will only be used for one term.

The alternative that I can see if for them to sell off the equipment to the engineering sophomores and freshmen who will be taking up the same course, named Switching Theory, maybe even for a little bit of a profit just like what some students do with textbooks that they only use for one minor subject or even general science requirement.

And I know their course does not dictate that they have to specialize in computer hardware, but this is at least something that they can find a practical application for one of these days, even while working on their own computers. Ironically, they ended up leaving all the breadboards with their unfinished circuits in the lab after the period anyway.

Session 1027 also has some experiments unfinished. Class dismissed.