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

I realized today that in some ways, I'm like a groom at a recently concluded wedding when it comes to events organized by the school.

This, by the way, came up from a recent discussion I had with my friends Justin and Chat about their own wedding trauma.

I know the student organizers would like to think all about the positive things that they can take away from the events they set up for Engineering Week, but taking it in context of the past year's preparations and what could be better, I'm all negative.

I did remind them, for example, about giving specific invitations to the Integrated School teachers to our Open Lab so that we could have a lot of visitors from the grade school kids.

Instead what we had were classes whose teachers had gone to the first talk on the first day, and were present when they gave the verbal invitation.

That was on the first day. Second and third day have passed, and no visitors.

So for tomorrow I'm not even going to ask the technician and the students to bring out the materials tomorrow, since for the past two days anyway, half of the lab rooms were being used for the catapult contest and for the students preparing for the combat robot competition tomorrow as well as my Computer Science student class earlier, leaving not enough room for the open lab.

There's also putting out posters just a week before the event.

Even the band fest organizers are guilty of that, just coming out with posters less than a week from their set date.

But I'll have to put off other criticisms for another day, at my limit for today.

Session 2047 has to find a balance between optimism and being well grounded. Class dismissed.