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

Again in the meeting of my Computer Systems Organization lab class for the tenth week of the third term, we were all about catching up with previously unfinished experiments, this time in the relatively brighter new Engineering (or more appropriately in this case – since it was the Computer Science and Information Management majors using it: electronics) lab.

This is because there are no dark papers covering the windows like in the previous lab. There isn’t even any tint on the windows, so that when looking out, into the parking lot, the colors are not muted.

The polished stone tabletops are also of a lighter color – gray - not black Formica like in the lower lab. The table top area is also smaller, but at least, unlike the table can be approached on all sides instead of just one with the previous tables because of the shelves all along one side.

Since the room is also half as small as the previous lab, and the air conditioner inside is the stand up cabinet type instead of from the air vents, it’s definitely colder there than in the room below.

All the shelves of equipment are now also inside the technician’s room, where they don’t have to have sliding glass doors and locks anymore. At least there is a better control now of what equipment the students use during an experiment, instead of the “just get from the unlocked shelves” policy that we’ve unceremoniously implemented so far.

Now as to my class itself, only one group stayed until the end of the class. This is because the rest of the students have gotten so used to being behind in the experiments that for some groups, the attitude has become “What’s one more unfinished task?”

They already have an idea that I will not be grading them based on all of the experiments we’ve had so far, but probably based on the average of what has been accomplished by all of the groups, so that there will be some groups who will get bonuses for “excelling” and others will be penalized for trailing.

It’s the fairest system I can think of right now, instead of using the tailing group as the standard and grading everyone else based on that.

Session 1049 is trailing. Class dismissed.