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.

@@A follow up to my Introduction to Robotics class first demonstration: one of the groups was (I believe) trying to let me overhear their plight in their last meeting, that they were able to give posters to be stamped last Friday, but that they assumed it would be the secretary of the office of student affairs that would be posting, and that they did not have to return to the office to get and put up the posters themselves.

And we're talking about the current academic commissioner and his group mate who ran for sports commissioner last year (but lost, also due to his own inflated belief of self worth).

So they thought that the secretary was their servant, and would put up everyone's posters?

@@ Ephraim takes the spotlight in the same class again, asking another student who had passed the course previously for help with the program of their robot. Now I'm tempted to make another project that's programming intensive to see how they explain that in their defense and not just ask someone else to work for them.

So much for stepping up. I guess slackers are as slackers will be, regardless of responsibility.

@@ In my Energy Conversion lecture class, we had their first exam, after I asked them when they wanted the exams: once every four weeks three times a term or once every six weeks twice a term (and taking two meetings each due to the scope).

Of course they agreed to the former, although up to the last minute there were students who believed that there would be no test. Not only was there also one student who asked for his exercise notebook back to help him with the review, but that same student asked if they could have index cards for the formulas.

Now, I would only agree to that if there was enough time to warn all the students about it, and if their list of formulas are going to be similar (just photocopied from one student, for example) to be fair to all concerned. So instead I just told them to write all the important equations on the chalkboard.

Unfortunately, they didn't put all the formulas I would use in the exam, so in the middle of the test the same student had to look through their notebook again, then post not just the equations but the entire solution of a certain part of the lecture on the board.

Obviously, this perked the students' attention in that they already had an idea in what section of the questions to use the formula just given. Not good preparation.

Session 1675 does not want to conform to the teacher's idea of what a good student should be. Class dismissed.