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

In the first meeting of my Engineering Drawing and Design class for the twelfth week of the first term, I didn’t give them any more new exercises.

We stopped at twenty five, roughly averaging two per meeting. But they still have two weeks to finish the exercises in the new free 3D software that had already been installed in the student lab computers.

Those were supposed to be exercises 14 to 16, but they had to be postponed until the software was available, but at least, unlike the first software we were supposed to use, I knew it was going to be available.

That’s why I didn’t give any advanced exercises on the first software.

There were also some other exercises I had planned on giving them, such as the last circuits in the Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism laboratory and recreating their Graphics Two plates using the third 3D rendering software, and comparing and contrasting the ease of use.

In the second meeting of my Engineering Materials Science class for the week, I gave them the non analytic and non-graphical method of solving for the angle between two vectors in three-dimensional space, and also how to get the normal to a plane given three points.

For most of the students, this was already a review of planar geometry and the dot and cross product from their mechanics one class (or even advanced mathematics, maybe electromagnetic theory).

Afterwards I gave the strengthening mechanisms for deformed crystals, most of which required just definitions. To give this just as much importance as the computational parts of the discussion, I said that all the identification and enumeration questions from all the way back to Chapter 4 will be included in the finals, although the problem solving and calculations will only be from Chapter 4 onwards.

As for Deiv, he acted as normal as can be expected from him.

Session 1255 just acts. Class dismissed.