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.

Besides the general science requirement laboratory class that I gave the final grades to the students on, there was also the Computer Systems Organization lecture and lab class (which was no problem to determine the grade for because I was the teacher in both – although it did not start out like that in the first weeks of the term) and my Introduction to Robotics classes.

For the Computer Science majors only subject (although I saw from the flowchart of the Computer Engineering students that they will also be taking the subject up sometime) no one failed, although there were some who got very low grades because of some very low exam scores.

As for the Introduction to Robotics students, only a handful of people failed, and these were the ones who not only did not take any of the tests, but also had the most number of absences therefore most likely contributed the least to their group’s successive projects.

Now, going back to the more complicated subject of the general science requirement mechanics, there were several students who, after meeting with their lecture professor who gave them the breakdown of the grades, and then decided to approach me to ask me for reconsideration.

But when I went to the details of checking their percentages - which they freely gave in pleading their case - (having gotten higher grades in their lecture classes than in their lab) it turned out that I would have to double their current lab standing for them to be able to get a passing grade.

They didn’t realize that since the split was sixty and forty percent, that a smaller increase in their lecture grade would result in a larger boost in their overall grade, not like with the smaller based lab grade.

So this is something else that the students have to watch out for, from both subjects, when they try to gauge the results of their efforts for the next term, especially for the engineering and computer science students with more lab classes in the future. And it’s something I’m not familiar with either in all my years of teaching, so I have to learn from experience along with them.

Session 1095 has a high grade in lab, but it’s not enough to pass. Class dismissed.