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

So what if the students are all participating in a camp for the Lord?

They had more than two dozen organizers who stayed over last night.

By 730am this morning I had no student to assist me in the college recruitment, and there I was in the central lobby with my own bag, an LCD projector, a laptop and the flyers and brochures all in four bags slung over my shoulder. In one hand I also had the collapsible screen, and in the other I had the box containing the robot we were going to demonstrate.

All I asked for was one student they could spare for half a morning.

There were almost ten of them there, engineering and had finished or were taking up Introduction to Robotics who could have helped me.

Some gave the excuse that they were the senior this or the speaker that.

I guess it's really the camaraderie for the entire duration of the camp that they're after, which is why they can't miss any part of it.

And that is what is suspiciously cultish to me: loving God by gathering inwards.

"What we are doing is pleasing to the Maker's eyes, so damn our critics."

One student who had committed yesterday I just sent a mild message to when he was half an hour late: "Please be on your way already."

Halfway through the event he replied that he was nursing a recovery from sinusitis, and would just make up for it next time.

Another, thankfully, followed to the visited school on his motorbike from home, after apologizing for waking up late, just as we arrived.

I'm thankful for small mercies, and that point of light in the darkness.

Session 1727 better not be prioritizing extra-curriculars over academics . Class dismissed.