Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

From talking about the faculty (and some staff) retreat in November, I will now talk about the graduating students' retreat this weekend.

A lot of the seniors, who have been my students since their freshman year, have been asking if I will be attending their retreat.

I answered, "I can't tell you. It's a secret." Which is actually the same as divulging it, since I couldn't lie straightfaced that I wasn't going. Why would it be a secret after all if I wasn't going? It's not as if the students were expecting me to go.

That's also the answer that the college secretary and Mission Office head Sir Mel has been giving them, so they already know.

We're actually supposed to be following up there on Saturday, the second night of their session. It's also telling that it has to be emphasized in posters plastered all over the campus for the benefit of the retreat participants going that there is a "no liquor policy" enforced.

Now I will talk about some measures about the robotics demonstration yesterday that I don't want random students reading to know about.

The schedule was set for 12pm. I told them that at 1140am we were going to have a trial with all of the groups, then at 1150am we will be proceeding to the Integrated School building.

Of course that wasn't followed. No trial was performed at 1140am or at 1150am and by 12pm I left them in the lab to go to the I.S. building.

at 1220pm I was already composing a message to the students that those groups who did not show up by 1230pm cannot get a grade higher than 3.5, and there would be a point-five deduction every ten minutes.

The first group that did show up before I could send a message did not bring the "package" block, so we had to wait for the other groups to arrive regardless of their "punctuality".

And the robots had to be adjusted in the middle of operation, despite being "aligned" earlier, by either moving the base or helping the package along from one conveyor belt to another.

Session 1375 thought they would still receive top grade for helping their robot. Class dismissed.