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.

As I mentioned in the student version, there are still students enrolling up to this week, meaning that for those who are going to be taking the first mathematics requirement of all courses, they have to take the diagnostic exam first before we can assign them to any of the four sections.

The problem is that those who took the exam last Monday could not be evenly distributed into the four classes who already had an equal number of students assigned. They mostly clustered in the third class, which means that some students from the third class had to be bumped down to the fourth class.

A few more had to be transferred from the third class to the second class, and then some from the second class had to be moved to the first class, which is mine.

So much for ensuring that the minimum number of students be displaced in any event. This means that from the “new” class lists that we had already settled on in the last part of the week previously, all four of them have to be changed, with one class removing and adding students, and three classes increasing the ranks.

For my class, when we met for the second time in the second week, at least since I believe I am a little behind on the lectures compared to the other classes, I was not worried that there might have been a gap in any part of the first chapter between the topic I was teaching and what might have been covered in their previous class with the other teacher.

In fact, from the questions they asked me relating to the next topic (which is factoring polynomials; we were still taking up operations on polynomials) it could be that they had already gone through what I was still talking about. Better for them to repeat listening to topics than to miss out on any for the first quiz at the end of the week though.

Another note about these new students was that even though I was a third of the period time late in showing up (a misunderstanding with my cousin on departure time) they were still in the classroom. Even the roving security agreed if it were the upperclassmen in whose class I was late for, they would already have left in half the duration.

Session 1143 got bumped. Class dismissed.