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

In the first activity of my general science requirement mechanics lab class for the third term, I wasn’t surprised when there were more students who showed up than in the previous meeting. I didn’t tell them that I had already expected this since the director of the registrar’s office already asked me about having twenty five students per class, although again, in retrospect, that was when I should have told the acting dean about the possibility of opening a new section and really sticking to the class size limit we had set before.

The groups were only supposed to measure a rectangular wooden block, a coin and their ID cards, but somehow the technician got the idea (from one of the previous teachers most likely; I didn’t ask) about including the metal ball used in some of the later experiments.

The students definitely had a difficult time measuring that using just the ruler, but I did ask them to try, since the purpose of having different measuring devices was to determine when to use the best one for the object at hand.

I also had to write the questions for the quiz on the board since our second printer in the faculty room is on the fritz (more on that some other time).

Some of the students were still surprised about the quiz despite my having talked about it last meeting, although some of the others took it to heart and said now they know what to expect for the next activity.

At least one of those who showed up for the first time in that class (a senior) was surprised about the quiz when he showed up late, and said maybe he could be excused from it since he wasn’t there last meeting.

That’s the point of having the quiz in the first place, which is to ensure people will show up early and on the first meeting, instead of assuming the mood is relaxed simply because the class takes three hours.

But I did say if he could give me a copy of his enrollment slip that has the date after the first session, then I’d consider not counting that absence.

Session 1487 is never on time. Class dismissed.