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

As I was saying yesterday, my regular class in robotics (non-introduction) is only given two units, which means we only meet for two hours a week, at one hour chunks per day. It's bad enough during one-and-a-half hour periods, when students have the habit of showing up thirty minutes late.

In this class, which starts thirty minutes after the 1.5 hour classes have already started, since they leave their houses thirty minutes later than the usual, they show up in school thirty minutes later than the usual, which means for a class that is supposed to start at 8:30am, they arrive at 9:00am - halftime.

So when the student reporting started, I had an impromptu rule set in that those who showed up to class on time, when I arrived in the room, would be exempted from the quiz at the end of the class, where they had to answer five questions each based on the two reports given, as well as give three applications of the presented sensors on their robots.

The practice wasn't one I overtly told the class, rubbing it into the face of the people who showed up late, but I only told it to those who were there at the start of the class.

It was also specifically tailored to give the fourth year irregular students a non-reward (and something akin to punishment) for not going to class on time - which somehow they got wind of.

In our most recent session, the slackers were there early, even having made bets among themselves as to who would show up earlier.

And even though I did not announce it in class this time like before, one of the old students even went up to me and asked me point blank if they were exempted from the quiz, joking that it was too bad because he was so looking forward to it.

I only teased them that it was something they couldn't keep up for the rest of the reports, that it was a one time freak occurence.

Session 1899 apparently prefers being given less work to waking early. Class dismissed.