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

In the past few days, I have been thwarting some notoriously easy-way-out students from trying to submit past (not even own) efforts for new credit in my subjects.

The first is perennial slacker E-Frame. It's bad enough that he's suddenly abandoned his pouting personality for loud joking in my classes, just because there are some students whose remarks I react to in a light mood during my lectures.

Maybe he's of the wrong impression that by assuming a buddy-buddy outlook with the teacher, that's how his grades go up, when in fact it's the other way around: it's those students' industriousness in my class that makes me act more informal towards them.

Anyway, since last term he already went on the field trip with his girl friend who was my student for the last two weeks of the term that I was their teacher in the same subject, and because he did already take up the subject before, he approached me to ask me if he could use his impressions from that time three months ago to answer the bonus report on the field trip.

What I could not allow him was to have his old answers returned. I told him he could just supplement his answers, or change those for which he could compare the impressions he got.

I didn't say anything about being required to go on the field trip and pay again.

But as it turns out, this is the time that my co-teacher in the general science requirement mechanics lecture class decided to change the questions for the field trip, since he still has all of his students submissions from last term and could check for duplications.

This is the one where they have to check the motion of a pendulum suspended from their wrist (to prevent from dropping it on the wilder rides, which means we can't use the water in a bottle to check for centripetal force and the like – yet).

The second instance is a second student approaching me after finding out there's a project in basic electronics lab. He may have heard that they are supposed to construct a power supply, so he asked if instead he could submit something else.

But as soon as the word “generator” were out of his mouth I cut him off, saying it wasn't in the scope of the subject we have. Terrifying visions of the last minute wind to mechanical energy to weak bulb light converter I would not have approved initially from two terms ago are still fresh in my memory.

Session 1555 would as for points for submitting a grandmother if it was allowed. Class dismissed.