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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 second Engineering Computer Aided Design and Drawing class for the fifth week of the first term, I went to the computer lab assuming that the problem that occurred the week before - when the one of the Three Dimensional Animation classes were there at the same time saying that they were supposed to use the labs - was already fixed.

It turns out that it wasn't. As I think I have mentioned before, I wasn't there at the time because of a promotions board meeting with the Dean and the Executive Vice President, so I had asked the college secretary to get the attendance of my class and just give them the tasks for the day, to be submitted to my e-mail - something I don't use unless it was an emergency.

And it was an emergency, because the meeting started an hour earlier than the secretary first told me, and that was the time I was supposed to spend in getting the students' files from the week before from their disks so I could return them.

So I couldn't return their disks, so I had to have another way for them to pass me their work. E-mail was the best alternative.

During the meeting the secretary told me that the teacher of the other class was there, so my students - with no teacher to back them up - were displaced, and had no computers to use.

So I had to change the deadline of their exercises from that afternoon to the middle of the following week to give them time.

In the most recent class, the computer technician was telling me that he had shunned my students from the room - again - because according to the latest schedule of classes that the secretary gave him, my class was supposed to be in the robotics lab.

This is because the secretary, unless specially reminded, assumes all three-hour engineering classes can be set there instead of in the computer lab, and it had not been revised in her copy, even though I had been meeting my class in the computer lab for the last four weeks. This is also something the computer technician failed to consider, seeing as the other class was displaced from the Integrated School computer lab they had been using before the I.S. started their classes.

So from the computer lab I returned to the faculty room to ask the secretary the final status. She told me that the 3D class will be merged with the other section in a classroom, and I was to use the comp. lab. I thanked her, and requested her to clarify this to the lab tech on the phone before I returned there.

Hopefully it will be smooth sailing with respect to room assignments from here on in.

Session 1181 was set in the robotics lab. Class dismissed.