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

My Electromagnetic Theory class was moved to the next day from when we held our first meeting. This was after a student in that class, who is also part of the Student Council, was able to gather all of their schedules (as well as mine) and determine the common free times. For the students though, it mean no lunch break for two days out of the week.

This was early that same day. I found most of them sitting on the fourth floor stair well, and told them about the change.

They asked that we postpone the meeting to the second session of the week, since technically it would mean we would have three meetings for the week, but I declined. I even admitted to them that I wanted to have a lecture before a certain student showed up, but they were reluctant, because they were going out to celebrate the birthday of one of them - in fact the same person I assigned to get their schedules.

I told them to just get something to go, and assumed they would show up even if a little late. This gave me enough time to fill the board with our first lesson, recalling from such past subjects as introduction to electricity and magnetism, trigonometric applications, and integral calculus.

At the end of the board I gave the rest of the solution as an assignment, since I could not erase what I had already written on the left side of the board. For every ten to fifteen minutes that passed and no one showed up, I added to the assignment.

But the bell rang, the students of the next class were already filing in but not my students. Of course I'd feel my preparation: writing and computations had all gone to waste.

Luckily, one of the students passed by outside, and in record time during the ten minutes between classes was able to copy everything.

I told her to give it to her classmates to prepare for the next session, and I planned that if they showed up before then to apologize to me, I would just tell them to answer the assignment.

Session 1475 may be abusing teachers who are too "kind". Class dismissed.