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

I don't know why the people who schedule the final exams (the college secretary before, the registrar's office now) insist on setting the laboratory class finals in the lab itself.

This time around I saw several teachers who were from another system just accept the assignment, and went for practical exams.

Remember that the standard duration of finals is two hours, while regular classes are three hours each, much better for practicals.

I usually (as has been the standard practice even in the main campus of the district) to hold written finals for lab classes during finals week, set in classrooms where all the students have their own tables apart from each other and are all facing front.

This is as opposed to holding exams in the lab, with at least four students per table, one at each side, and facing in different directions.

Anyway, another practice started for this school year is having lecture and lab class finals on the same day, sometimes successively.

That was what happened with my assembly language class this morning.

I was still hoping that the students could finish in two hours, but as the end of our period loomed, I begin to doubt it.

I was online using the wi-fi, so I asked the college secretary if there was another free room nearby and if whoever had an exam set for the time after my class (since the lab exam scheduled for afterwards was set in the lab) could be sent there instead.

For my class, by the way, I had just one exam for both lecture and lab, which they may or may not have finished in two hours.

The exam after mine was Ms. Gladys, who handles Career Orientation.

I was all ready to tell her students if they showed up to go to the new room assigned.

It turned out though, that she herself, when she saw that I was still in the room, decided to wait in the faculty room until I returned.

So until 30 minutes after her exam was supposed to have started, her students kept going back and forth between my room and the new room I told them about, looking and waiting for her.

Thankfully her exam was short or her students would have asked for another extension.

What a mix up that was.

Session 1779 wished lab teachers wouldn't give a practical and a written finals both. Class dismissed.