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

In the first of the fourth week of the second term, I already had to substitute for two classes of one of my co-teachers who - as something that could be a consequence of extensive cleaning up after the typhoon - was feverish. Fortunately, the first class, Analog Communications Lab, had only to continue working on their first project, which was an AM radio they were constructing. When finished, they had to be able to tune in to at least six up to ten stations to pass.

If the students could not get up to six stations, then that means they had to test or troubleshoot the various parts and connections of their radio to determine what they had to fix.

In the second class, that of the senior engineering students (all electronics and communications engineering now that the last of the computer engineering majors dropped out) it was also fortunate that the teacher had already given them the experiment procedures, which they only had to photocopy before they could proceed. The instructions were also well worded so that minimum clarification was needed from the instructor as to the methodology.

In both cases and classes, the students were able to use the newly acquired power supplies, since the ones that we had purchased before are now phased out, and will have to be thrown to the scrap bin if they become broken beyond a busted fuse.

It was after these two classes that I met my students in Computer Circuit Fundamentals. I gave them an option between two tasks, one of which was to create a program (one about entering two three digit numbers and determining which is higher or if they are equal) or if they wanted to trace the output of the second input-output program I gave them before.

Strangely enough, all the groups decided on the first option, which I figured to be the more difficult. I don't know why they chose the way they did. After all, there's something about the unused option that I didn't tell them would happen...

Session 1337 also chose the wrong task to perform. Class dismissed.