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

In the last experiment for the entire term of my Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism laboratory class, held in the twelfth week of the first term, we had Galvanometers, or Construction of Ammeters and Voltmeters.

This time around the students had an easier time in getting the resistance of the galvanometer compared to the previous class, and consistent values at that.

And these students were also able to get the one integer digit shunt and multiplier resistance values without needing to compute and connect resistors in parallel. They were able to proceed with setting up and changing the values between the standard and constructed ammeters and voltmeters almost without my having to check all five of their values for each, but I still was present for all of these.

In the meeting of the second section of my Engineering Drawing and Design class for the twelfth week of the first term, we just continued with the previous exercises that had to be translated from the two-dimensional software to the three-dimensional non-animation software.

Although some of the students were getting very much into the software that they were completing their exercises outside of the class and on their own computers, coming up with their own designs for appliances, faucets and even basketball courts and shot clocks not found in the default shapes of the software, I still decided not to give them any new exercises to take up more of their time.

In the first meeting of my Engineering Materials Science class for the thirteenth week of the first term, we started with the last chapter in the textbook, appropriately entitled “Failure”, which I told them may be the end result of untreated and increasing engineering stress.

I listed down the reasons why to study (to avoid failure, of course), the consequences and the reasons for failure. The types of fracture were enumerated, and the types of cleavage (trans-granular and inter-granular), after having taken up necking and hardness in previous chapters.

Session 1261 is still trying to complete the old exercises. Class dismissed.