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

So how was my finals week? Well, there is at least one student here right now taking a special exam in general science requirement mechanics lecture, since he did not indicate in his exercise notebook that he was not taking the finals.

At the same time his rating was on the borderline, so that that given the very minimal discrepancy between my computation and his, he passed in his and didn't make it in mine.

If it weren't for Ephraim during the finals who noticed his name in the seating arrangement, he would not have known he still had to take the finals. In his benefit, I neglected to tell him that if he had not bothered to contact me, I would have passed him anyway, on virtue of being an engineering major.

As it is now, the exam he's taking is a direct copy of their third exam, so he should have to trouble answering it, even though the values are changed all around.

Speaking of Ephraim I got a dose of his “pitiful” voice again when he approached me after finals about his missing exam. I told him he's supposed to give a medical certificate before I give him an exam, and so far that hasn't surfaced.

And since I won't be in school tomorrow, that means he will be getting a failing grade two days from now with a remark about incomplete requirements.

Anyway, I already prepared his exam, and boy is it more difficult than any that I have given so far, with questions such as “does the car reach the wall? Support your answers with computations” that requires a lot of analysis on his part.

In my feedback and control systems lab class, the exam that I gave them was hands-on, not practical like they were asking. Two of the students approached me beforehand asking if I was going to concentrate on the first three experiments, which was all they could answer correctly, although they did pass their data sheets well enough.

There are six experiments in all, between ten students, so I divided the first two into two parts, the next two into three parts each, and getting just the first part of the fifth experiment.

The guy who complained still picked something from the fourth experiment, which was something he still could not answer completely. Worse, he picked part 1B when he drew again after everyone was finished, and looking at their data folder, he was just one step/command away from completing his task.

Session 1591 thinks there's all the time in the world to catch up with requirements. Class dismissed.