Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

@ I was disappointed yesterday when several of the senior engineering students approached me to ask for the results of their last experiment in Energy Conversion Lab.

This was done a full week ago, and they are only asking for their data now, a day before the deadline of submission of their individual reports, which means it'll be last minute work again.

It's bad enough that the students are always asking for their data sheets after they have been submitted.

Their excuse is that our class ends at 540pm, by which time the photocopiers in campus are all closed.

Maybe I should re-institute the group notebook, so that they would manually copy their results besides the official record they have to submit to the professor afterwards.

It's already bad enough that I had to tell them they had to photocopy the experiment from the manual before the class started, so as not to waste almost half an hour at the start of each session waiting for the reproduction of materials.

They are, after all, already engineering seniors. Several of these procedures have to be second nature to them.

@ In my Introduction to Robotics class, it's funny that Ephraim is now being forced to step up to be able to ensure that their group will get a non-zero grade in their first project.

During the first sessions of the term, he tried to get me again with his sad face and his sad voice to tell me that their equipment and robotics kit weren't working.

I guess that kind of behavior is really ingrained in him and will take very long to remove, especially the older he gets.

After all, it's very true what they say, from my experience: Old dogs cannot learn new tricks.

From what his friends have been telling me when I meet them in the hallways, he apparently has been complaining about something in our class, and that, I believe is his group mates.

I've already instituted the rule where the students are asked to grade their group members in terms of percentage work done for each session, and every time, Ephraim has given himself the relatively higher grade compared to the rest of his team.

That doesn't mean he'll pass if they eventually don't have any robot to show.

Session 1665 is just an off-street beggar. Class dismissed.