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

More on this term’s failures: it was the first time that I talked to the guy who had been blatantly cheating throughout all the exams that I’ve proctored.

Of course he was surprised that he failed – he had not even gotten his test papers since the start of the term. But then again, maybe he did already know his current standing from what he was able to answer in the exams. He was probably just very deep in denial.

So obviously he asked why he didn’t pass. I told him the results of all his exams were there for him to peruse. I also said my assumption about a student who doesn’t get his test papers back as being the same as a students who doesn’t care about his results, even though he still takes the tests while not attending most of the lectures.

He said that his group submitted their envelope for putting their test papers in though.

That wasn’t enough reason for me to pass him though. Besides, it didn’t mean he looked at his papers.

As for the engineering pioneers, of course none of them failed in my class, although one of them failed in one of their laboratory subjects for submitting a paltry electronics project and for passing a haphazard alternative paper after having missed the schedule for their practical exam.

My cousin, who breezed through the practical projects, got the lowest grade (along with the guy who failed in the lab subject) in Electromagnetic Theory, which is two point oh.

There were three of them who got a grade of four in Advanced Mathematics, because they were able to ace the finals.

In their Strength of Materials class, their finals was to make a geodesic dome ten feet high and twenty feet wide from triangles made out of GI pipes. Each pipe was two feet long and we have yet to compute how many pipes they used total and how many triangles the structure is made of.

This they were able to finish two days after the course card distribution day, with the help of the administrative engineer and his pool of workers, for five hours.

By the end of the day we were all sitting on the top of the dome like it was a huge Jungle Gym, which it was, and it was able to hold the weight of the half dozen people perched at different pressure points of the set.

The only problem is that the GI pipes used were already rusting on the surfaces so our hands and clothes were blemished in our “play”.

The Dean is planning to have it placed in the rotunda for everyone coming to the school to see. That is, if the owner of the land surrounding the school agrees.

Tomorrow I’ll talk about the suggested used for the dome by several faculty members and the results of some teaching demonstrations for new applicants. For now, class dismissed.