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

Earlier this week the directress of the Registrar’s Office called me up to ask me what was my absolute limit as to the number of students that can enroll in one general science requirement mechanics lab class.

I said to her twenty, given that we have only four sets of equipment and that means having five members in one group already has a big chance of almost half of them not doing anything during the experiments.

But then she told me that there were six seniors who had to enroll in the lab otherwise they would not graduate on time. With the dean not being there to back me up or for me to consult, I finally agreed.

After all, last term’s lab class had twenty four students, twenty two of which were a regular freshman block of communication arts students.

I said to myself I would just have to take extra precautions to ensure that the students do not slack off more than usual, such as by enforcing the school’s policy on allowable absences as strictly as I can.

There were also at least three junior communication arts students who enrolled with the block section that was designated for the computer science and information management sophomores and the engineering freshmen.

So much then for giving several computer related applications such as projectile motion. But maybe I will still push through with that, after all, the recent 3D animation classes were given to both CA and CS students, and there has been no complaints about dropping it for CA.

As expected, only up to twenty students did show up for each lab class, meaning the slacking seniors would just show up on the subsequent sessions, and thus can be assigned to any group I want. I thinking of starting to implement the policy where each group has to give the percentage of work done during the experiment of each member for this term, not the ranking like in robotics last term.

Session 1471 thinks the experiment will get done with or without help. Class dismissed.