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.

In the meeting of my second Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism laboratory class for the tenth week of the first term, we had the experiment on parallel, series-parallel and parallel-series circuits.

It took several questions from the students for it to be clear to that that they were supposed to keep parts two and three from the manual, and that the additional tables and circuits I gave them were the new part one and part four, even though I asked them to listen when I was explaining and I wrote everything they needed on the board.

I also warned them against dawdling because in the last class, the other section took almost the whole three hours to finish that experiment.

Since on of the groups with only three members also had an absentee, I asked one of the members from the one group with four members to temporarily help them out. I even joked with the girl in that two-person group that maybe they'd perform faster when she's not there.

It also happened that the girl who transferred was learning more in that new group than in her old group, and she was taking up time being taught instead of helping the old members finish their measurements faster.

I also reminded them that they were supposed to submit their group reports for the previous experiment (loop and node rules for circuits with more than one power source) on the same day, having performed the first part during the last meeting. Both report assignments are then due on the next meeting, for a few that means two reports to be submitted in one meeting, which we can't help due to the suspension.

As for the guy who didn't go to class (a rare occurrence given how much I scare them about incomplete requirements being equal to a zero rating – forty percent of their total lecture and lab unified grade) he will have to make it up by performing the experiment all alone.

Only one other student has had to do this since the start of the term, for the first experiment.

Session 1235 was also absent in the lab. Class dismissed.