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

In my first exam for finals week, Engineering Materials Science, Deiv was on my case from the very start. Just like in the last exam, when he was asking to be seated alone in the two-person desks.

Since there were some students who may not take the finals (and didn't) I was finally able to give him a seat by himself. What's funny -bizarre is that he still asked to be seated in the first row, instead of on the second row where I had put him. In some ways it reminds me of Lisa's experiment on her brother Bart in “The Simpsons”, where her brother never learned and insisted on touching the cupcake even though he kept getting electrocuted, while the hamster learned after the first try.

I had to repeat to him that there was a reason behind the set seating arrangement.

Next, he asked about some of the items in the identification and enumeration part of the exam, particularly the range and amplitude of stress.

He asked me to describe it. I told him I wrote the label, and I gave the equation.

What's ironic is that this is the exact same part in the last meeting that he hadn't finished copying, so I couldn't continue with giving them sample problems, and got me fed up that I dismissed the class early.

So in the end, interrupting the class and insisting on recording that part wasn't worth it for him.

Next, the part about getting the angle between the normal to the plane and the directions of the slip and the stress. He asked something like “Is the slip direction here the slip direction and is the stress direction the stress direction?” Of course, I answered sarcastically.

Later he asked about the last formula in that problem, because he assumed (one of his operative words that always leads him into trouble) it would be given, when he already asked earlier if all the formulas included were all the ones to be used, and I answered a definite “no.” But I'll continue this tomorrow.

Session 1271 made too many assumptions. Class dismissed.