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

Here I thought all of my schedule conflict problems with the students was over.

Because the Engineering Computer Aided Drawing and Design class needs to use the computer lab and not the robotics lab, its schedule was moved to a time when the computer lab was free. Unfortunately, this time was the same as one of my general science requirement mechanics laboratory subjects.

This means that the five students who were taking both subjects had to move to the second section, the one that bloated to thirty students and that I had to split up.

Unfortunately, the students said this wasn’t a smooth transition for them because now they couldn’t attend their intermediate computer programming lab class which was at the same time as my second mechanics lab class.

So the dean moved the programming class, and now it’s in conflict for two of my students in the Basic Electronics Lab class. They could have just dropped – but that means losing four units total: for both the lecture and the lab.

The solution was to “split” them again, unofficially this time. These two students are free during my Feedback and Control lab class (which only has three groups and thus doesn’t use the fourth table in the lab) so that’s when they’ll be performing the experiments, a day earlier than the rest of the students.

One of those students is a transferee with a sophomore ID number, while the other is an irregular junior.

In fact, in that BASELLA class, all the irregular juniors are in one group. The problem is: one of the other juniors there said he’s also free during my FEECOLA class, so he will be moving to that schedule too. I bet his decision has something to do with his original group mate being a certain student he wants to get away from.

That means only two students will be left in their original group, while the others have four to five students each. Either I make them into three groups of five members each, or three groups of four and one group of three.

I guess I will be using that rotating membership of groups after all, so that no one has to endure having a certain student as part of their group for the rest of the term, which I’m sure the others will complain about when they find out.

Session 1515 really is difficult for the other students to get along with. Class dismissed.