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.

Yes, I'm proud of the engineering students who finished yesterday, but I was very disappointed with their presentation, and consequently with some of their former teachers for not giving them the right methods of project documentation, oral and written.

First, there was no formal paper presented with the all important details on related literature, theory, especially methodology, results and analysis. Bad enough they only had recommendations to the people who might be interested in continuing their work.

This is especially important in that there was a part they kept repeating their creation was much cheaper than the Mars rover, yet they never gave a cost breakdown and summation.

Their presentation was very informal, switching freely between Filipino and English, when there was in fact at least one foreign student present who would not understand all they were saying.

In fact, at one point one of the presentors even uttered profanity in the vernacular about how difficult one of their earlier plans were.

Highly opinionated slacker co-teacher was also there, providing side comments to some of the lower batch students at inopportune moments who would then laugh out loud and disrupt the proceedings.

I also thought the lower batches (fourth and third year at least, and some second year) were there for support, when in fact it was just required attendance for their seminars class.

After the presentation these students along with slacker co-teacher were actually hanging around waiting for at least one of the finishers to invite them to a free dinner or at least drinking that evening.

This is behavior I expect typically from slacker co-teacher who, on the day of course cards when the batch was supposed to have first submitted their projects, he instead invited them out to drink, saying it was for sentimental reasons and he might not be able to go out with them again - not true if they don't pass their projects in the first place, which he was keeping them from.

Worse, they kept their sole female member waiting with me in the school for them to return since they first suggested staying overtime to work.

Session 1825 definitely has his priorities screwed up, and is passing that on - proudly - to his students. Class dismissed.