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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 first class in Engineering Drawing and Design for the eleventh week of the first term, I had to give them several new exercises even though they had not yet submitted the previous ones I had assigned.

The new 3D software we are supposed to use for their exercises 14 to 16 had not yet been installed in the computers in the laboratory, so I instead told the students to create the second batch of circuits based on our experiments in the laboratory on series and parallel resistors, and node and loop rule applications, something those making the individual reports in that other subject can now use for illustration.

There was a bit of a problem that a lot of the students didn't bring their Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab manual. Thankfully some of the students who made the reports still remembered what the circuits looked like and what values the resistors and voltages had.

This was better because about half of the circuits I was asking them to recreate were not in the manual but additional ones I had given them in class, as mentioned here before in one of the previous entries.

So a lot of the students were thankful that we had gone back to an easier type of exercise compared to the byte guzzlers from their house and building specifications that have been the last three exercises.

In the second meeting of my Engineering Materials Science class for the week, we had only their second exam, after having taken up three chapters.

The equations and tables for the coverage took up more than half of the paper.

In fact, the five problems I provided could have fit in a paper a fourth the size of the entire questionnaire. One student suggested that next time we have an exam after finishing a chapter so that it would be easier for them.

For once I agree. I was just showing them what happens when they don't have exams soon enough.

Session 1243 complain too much. Class dismissed.