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.

In my Graphics One class this morning, where the students were supposed to give all the six orthogonal views of a figure, in a specific order, there were students who were asking me if they could move one view to a different location so that it would fit in their already enlarged plate paper.

I declined of course, because we're talking about engineering standards here.

In an arts subject, showing that much unconventionality might be praised, or labeled as innovative, but for communicating with other builders on specifics of what you want them to do, there are specific formats that transcend language and nationality.

So once again, at least for these lower batch students, they have to learn when they could bend the rules (which is almost never) and when they have to adapt to the given conventions.

Speaking of not following the rules, another E-frame attendance update.

That's just it: he's merely attending, and hoping that since the teacher is still assigning a plate to him to make every meeting that it means he still has a chance of passing.

Yes, he still has a chance of passing, but it's a very very slim chance, brought down almost to nil by the fact that he hasn't submitted a plate in two weeks or so, and even earlier, he was just listening to his mp3 player and doodling on the paper while his classmates were all working their fingers to the nub.

I thought it was a game we were playing, that I intentionally stayed way beyond the end of the period just to see when he would leave the room, like the time a week or so before when he already packed up his things even before the bell sounded.

I suspected that he thought I would give deductions if he left the room early, when in fact what I've been noticing is not just that but also when he leaves the room in the middle of the class and returns when it's almost dismissal time.

I will really have to fail him just to show the freshmen that his kind of tactics aren't going to earn him an undeserving passing grade compared to the hard work that they show.

Session 2315 is counting the days before no longer having to stand on this particular soap box. Class dismissed.