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

Sometimes pauses between aspects of what someone wants to write makes the strong emotion of the moment fade, so that when one tries to get back to what was once said, the "passion" is simply lost.

There are times when at a later time, the recollection becomes vivid again, maybe not as much as the original, but enough to be able to continue the continue the narrative. Unfortunately, that is not the case today with the subject yesterday.

So for now I'll talk about my subjects again, especially the last pre-final standing computation that I had yesterday with my computer science students in Assembly Language.

I discussed the answers to their the most recent exam before returning the results to them. What was most sad for me was that even though a lot of people were able to get high in the exam before this one which was on convertion from flowchart to assembly code and vice versa, when I went back to the basic concepts (such as how to perform mathematical operations) there were those who couldn't answer, which explains why very few were able to fill the execution tables correctly from the other questions.

So as I went on with the solutions there were more and more students who were slumped in their chairs, possibly not listening anymore, as the list grew longer and longer of the items that they got wrong.

It was exactly the same effect I got when I returned their papers first before discussing the answers. But at least I had their full attention, as they still wondered about their exact score.

And there were those still asking for special projects, when they in fact had almost zero in their computer exercises.

When they tried to counter with how difficult the programs were, that's when I said that kind of attitude is what those who don't make the right amount of effort to pass the subject have.

Session 2103 gives special projects for increasing the grade since the start of the term. Class dismissed.