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

In my Graphics Two class, I started telling my students to upload their old exercises to the groups page I made for my class three years ago.

This was because they had started complaining that even when the file was compressed and their old files moved, their works would still not fit in the diskettes they are supposed to be using for submissions.

Now, four weeks into the term, they have mostly foregone submitting diskettes, and at odd times after our classes I've had the students (mostly engineering freshmen who I'm handling for the first time, but some sophomores also that were my students in general science requirement mechanics - and one fourth year student who has not attended one session*) come up to me in the hallway to say that they've uploaded their files in the group - sometimes before the deadline, sometimes after.

This is because I've also gotten into the habit of not only giving them the day's exercises (twice a week for one and a half hours) but also the one for the next session so that they could have a jump on their work. This was good for the times when I was assigning them how the campus would look like if ten years or such, but now that the current exercises (circuits and orthogonal views) require less creativity, they are finishing them faster than I can assign them.

So there are some students who are one meeting ahead of their classmates.

And there are those who only finish what is required to be passed for that day, and don't even try to work on the other exercises at home so they would come out ahead by the next meeting.

And since the group only has space for a hundred megabytes of files, I have to clean out the old files (actually transfer them somewhere else) every so often. Sometimes though I forget to tell the students about this, so they are either alarmed that the files they uploaded are gone, or they just diligently upload them again - and I erase them again.

Another option is to just have one flash drive circulate in the class for them to copy all their files in, as long they don't rename others' work as their own, which would be easy to check.

Session 1849 when asked to look for a certain circuit to replicate on the net, would choose a very simple looking one. Class dismissed.