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

In my other two general science requirement mechanics lab classes for the week, we performed the fifth experiment, coefficient of friction, that the first class finished two weeks ago.

The only change that I made to the lab manual procedure and the first set up was I had them place four different loads on the horizontal block instead of five, and all less than one kilogram instead of going up to one and a half kilograms.

There was a point in the experiment when I stopped answering their questions about the procedure because they wouldn't have to ask if they read the manual, which the regular quizzes don't seem to be motivating them to do.

At this time, my students in the Basic Electronics Lab class showed up to work on their project.

Now, remember that the old robotics lab is now the mechanics lab, but that the current batch of sophomores were able to use during their first year classes.

So when it came time for us to move to their real classroom one floor above, they requested that we stay in the old lab room. After all, the old lab is twice the size of the new lab, and has more comfortable (lower) stools. So I agreed to their request.

There was one point in the session where one of their classmates who had a conflict with the computer programming lab class at the same time, showed up in the middle of the day to make up for his experiment. So by that time I actually had to supervise three different activities going on in the lab simultaneously.

For my B. A. S. E. L. L. A. students, I had to tell them that if they want to make their own PCB (printed circuit board) for the project, their casing has to be transparent.

Four of the six groups agreed to this, although they are keeping their kit-supplied PCB as a back up if they screw up with the etching or the drilling or the soldering.

The last group to show up (and without the kit purchased as yet) was of course that of a certain student.

He had to go to the computer lab first to talk to his two group mates who had another class, then he returned and once again asked if “he” could make the project at home.

I said no because they will be graded on how the teacher observes them working.

Session 1569 works best not under the teachers' eyes. Class dismissed.