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

There’s something I forgot to mention about Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab the other day. The technician, at the start, informed me that we had only two working dc voltage generators that could be lent out to the groups, down from three just the week before. I still have to look for that missing pair of connectors for the fourth one so that we could use the complete set again.

Thankfully the teacher of the junior engineering lab classes stepped in at that moment (he was just in the neighboring computer lab teaching one of the two sections of Graphics One – the third one, mine, was dissolved) and told me that the classes of my cousin’s third year engineering batch he was handling had in fact placed their whole setups in the experiments they haven’t finished in some of the cabinets under the desks, including the power supplies and the meters, which they might have forgotten that not only they are using starting this school year.

We definitely have to allot specific lockers to each group in each class next term, and require them to provide locks – combination ones, preferably so even the teachers can get to open them and prevent them from storing contraband in there. Heck, if we could get the latches approved and installed within the term, we can have the students start that this term, despite being halfway over.

Now on to the fifth day of the seventh week of classes for the first term: again I had my quiz in Mathematical Methods One. This time, based on the results of their first four tests, I ranked the students from lowest to highest, placing the bottom eight students in the first row, the next eight scorers in the second row and so on.

The arrangement may have been obvious to some, that students could only sit beside those who are of the relatively same performance level, and thus cannot copy anything they will not usually ordinarily not know, so I arranged each row by alphabetical order so as not to give away their absolute standings.

The coverage of the quiz, by the way was substitution and determinants methods for solving system of equations in two variables of degree one, and word problems in the same.

This time I noticed that several people from the second row finished and passed their papers first, then the third row, before those from the first and last rows even stood up.

At least that means that I don’t have low-faring students in this class who leave the room early because they Gave Up, and that students in both extremes are just as determined to answer all the questions.

Session 641 clocks out here. Class dismissed.