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.

Some very interesting happenings yesterday during the course card distribution, besides the ones I mentioned in the student accessible edition.

First of all, it seems that a certain student has failed another subject, this time Switching Theory.

It’s a course of logic and mathematics, so I’m not sure about what this means to his future in the program of Computer Engineering, if he has what it takes to continue.

I’m not sure if he will be my student in Assembly Language (which I’m tentatively assigned again) next term, but if he continues with this distracted behavior (along with my resorting to more verbal lectures again) he might get a low grade again.

Second is Ephraim. It turns out he’s not supposed to take up Introduction to Robotics yet, because he hasn’t taken up Computer Programming 2. That subject is a soft prerequisite of Robotics, so even if he had not passed Programming yet, as long as he had taken it before, he can take Robotics.

Now, just like with his Intermediate Mechanics subject, he will automatically fail if he doesn’t drop, because he cannot pass a post requisite whose pre-requisite he has not yet gotten a non-zero grade for. It’s just illogical.

Next, in differential calculus, three perennial underachievers have finally passed.

The not surprising thing is, now they want this same teacher to teach them Integral Calculus.

The problem is that since they are taking their practicum next term, this means that their only subjects in school will be on a Saturday, which the teacher is not willing to do.

I know that if they see a good thing, they want to stick with it, but it’s setting themselves up to failure to think that having the same teacher is what they need to pass.

@@ Personally, also, I haven’t passed all of my grades. In three of the four subjects I teach (both lecture and lab) the students were given an incomplete for them to be able to work on their projects and increase their grade. Some students were asking for their current standing, but I told them to just assume the worst. If they knew how little they needed to pass, they may not put as much effort into their project.

Session 1791 really does not have the right attitude to be an engineer. Class dismissed.