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

One of the officers of the student organization called Lenses Society (which I was opposed to in the first place since they couldn’t give a concrete non-overlap with the existing Digital Arts group) approached me recently to complain about one of their founders, who was inflating all of his roles in their upcoming mini film festival. She showed me the program where he placed the thanks to various committees of the club (more than a half dozen) who had supposedly worked on the project, when in fact less than ten people did ninety percent of the labor. I told her to remove that part, because if the school directors, the dean and the executive vice president saw that, they might have the wrong impression that the club is a tight, well-oiled machine with many parts. They might give the students more jobs than they could handle in the future, and end up disappointing everyone, including themselves.

Another point seems to be that he claims one of the members had given him the program, when in fact, from previous events, everyone knows it was all his formatting.

Maybe he knows already that if he owned the effort, it would be shot down like other suggestions of his.

This includes being one of three emcees for the event, to be held in a place barely larger than one and a half classrooms, and simply to introduce four independent films. Thus the number of speakers in considered overkill, and spotlight hogging.

They will have to settle this after the event though, so as not to disrupt their preparations.

In other news, my Electromagnetic Theory class had their first exam, which (un)fortunately I was not able to proctor because the teacher of the Science Fiction literature class asked me to guest lecture in her class at the same time on aliens, particularly the movies “Contact” and “The Forgotten”.

So which shall I talk about first, and which shall be left for the next post here?

The lecture first: what the teacher wanted to emphasize this time around was the difference between certain views about how aliens might treat humans, benevolently or maliciously, either as peers in the “intergalactic society of friendship and cooperation” or as a subspecies with very little or no rights, just as some of our ancestors have treated primitive cultures or some races of animals.

I hope the teacher asks the students about their own opinion, and to back it up with known facts.

Session 1507 wants the most amount of credit for the least amount of work. Class dismissed.