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

In the meeting of my general science requirement mechanics lab for the seventh week of classes, we had their third experiment: the study of the Composition of Concurrent Forces.

I was finally able to use the quiz questions that I had printed out the week prior.

The student who, for the past two meetings, had caused her group to write their group data and report on separate papers, was already in the room when I arrived, and had brought their notebook.

But other than that I was disappointed to see that some of the more diligent students I had did not make it early enough for the quiz. A few of them, in fact, were surprised that the quiz was finished when they got there. Probably they were assuming they could still make it within the ten minute duration, but they arrived just a bit too late.

I also heard a few students mentioning to their group mates casually about still having to submit the report for the previous experiment, and counting to the last day of their deadline, completely ignoring the fact that if they passed their paper on the last day, they could only expect a grade application of ten percent no matter how well they wrote it or copied it or downloaded it or had it made.

I don’t understand how the students can survive on that kind of eleventh hour mentality.

I was also a bit concerned to learn from the technician that there were only three working pulleys left available for each group to use on their force tables, when there was a part of the experiment where they needed to use four pulleys.

Since there are also five setups of the force table that were initially bought, that means that at least three of the pulleys have gotten broken in the past three years – or at the average of one per school year.

It’s time to order new and hopefully sturdier pulley for use in that experiment, if not probably a whole new force table set up altogether.

Session 1009 lacks a pulley. Class dismissed.