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

There was a slight hitch – entirely my fault – that happened with regards to my Introduction to Robotics class on their first meeting. All this time, since the college secretary first informed me that the subject was part of my tentative load, I had been under the impression that the class was held on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Last Thursday, I was fortunate enough to have been in the office as early as 8am, and when the registrar’s personnel showed up to give us our first class lists (a major improvement compared to the previous terms, although we all know that this one isn’t final) she was surprised to find me still in the faculty room.

She told me that she was expecting to see me in the classroom, because I had the INROBOT class at that time. I even told her that she was mistaken, that it was for the next day, until I checked the posted schedules once again and found out that she was right. I couldn’t even blame the secretary about giving me false information, because all the texts about my changing load she had given me were consistent as to the schedule.

It really was just a matter of my mind locking in on the erroneous information that it was Tuesdays and Fridays, and sticking to it. Talk about remembering just when it would have been in the best interest to forget that fact.

My second surprise of the day was when I found out that besides the fourth year engineering students who were supposed to have taken up this subject in their second year, the only ones who were enrolled in this class were second year computer science majors – none of the second year engineering students.

This was, after all, supposed to be their regular class, but since their academic adviser is the director of the school of engineering, he is in the position to know best when they should take a certain subject, such as moving differential equations to the second term because its post-requisite is given in the third term anyway, which he also changed for this term.

I would have thought that because of their decision that the regular engineering students not take it anymore, then they could have dissolved the subject altogether.

That would definitely have helped in partitioning off the remaining subjects for the engineering teachers due to one of the teachers backing out. But it’s too late to do that now, so I will have make sure these students have stellar outputs that will make this offering worth it for the school.

Session 1641 misremembered the class schedule as well, but for weeks. Class dismissed.