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

We’re back to tales of a certain student again. There’s only a week more to go before I’m not obligated to deal with him anymore.

First of all, during our last meeting, when his classmates were asking about bonuses due to attendance, they specifically mentioned that he was one of those who regularly come in late.

He had the guts to say “no” to this loudly, after I had mentioned about the twenty minutes is absent rule.

Today, true to form, even though our final exam is at the same time as our regular class session, he did show up at 120pm again.

I don’t mind, because before that, I was able to give his classmates a lot of hints, telling them to take advantage of the fact before he shows up, such as clarifications on some questions.

This is because the exam has some questions from my co-teacher who is handling the lab class.

I was surprised that he did include some commands and somewhat advanced topics (including one that I’m not sure works in most machines) in his questions that were supposed to be basic.

Anyway, back to a certain student. It’s not an exam with him if he doesn’t ask any questions.

To his first one, which was to ask if there was a typographical error (yes that goes over well with the teacher who made the exam) and I said “no”. Second was about one of the questions from their lab teacher, and I just answered that I didn’t know because the question was not mine.

That seemed to do the trick, because maybe he accepts that there are some things in the lab he doesn’t know about.

Next, he asked about whether the carry flag is affected by the zero flag or vice versa. I just said that that’s not one of the questions I could answer during the exam, much like a lawyer or a defendant’s Fifth Amendment disclaimer.

He even tried to insist, saying something that started with “Not even if it’s about…” and I would have wanted to say “ESPECIALLY in that case” but I had turned my attention to another student’s question.

I was so close to telling him that the type of question he was asking just showed how much he didn’t know about the topic, so it would have been best for him to just not ask, particularly since it was a fill-in-the-blanks type of exam (except there’s program analysis involved) where there were limits to the possible answers, which makes it almost like a multiple choice exam at that.

And again, one post is not enough to contain all that I have to say about him for today.

Session 2483 is still praying he finds somewhere else more suited for him to study in. Class dismissed.