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.

In the first meeting of my Computer Circuit Fundamentals lecture class for the first week of the second term, we just had the orientation, as usual. Since these are third year engineering students that I have handled since their first term here, they more or less already know what makes me tick and what ticks me off in class, so I don't have to repeat it.

With one exception, that is, but I'll get to that in the proper place in the narrative.

While waiting for the registrar's office personnel to arrive with the class cards, I reviewed them on conversion of decimals to binary numbers and vice versa, which they just took up the previous term, but they seem to have blocked out already.

I guess it was that traumatic for them, but that's what pre-requisites are for.

The same is true with the meeting of lab class, although this time I did group them into four pairs (yes, there were only eight students in the class; it's like a reality show elimination they way the students are like passing through a seive for the next major subject when failing pre-requisites).

There also seems to be still a worry about their attendance, a lot of students not the least bit apologetic with being late.

And I know just how to deal with that and similar recurring behavioral problems I've encountered with thess students before.

In the meeting of my Intermediate Robotics lecture class, I had to start with the lecture because it would be a waste of one meeting a week, since it was a two-unit subject.

I didn't take the whole two hours though, only around an hour and a half.

I'll talk about playing with certain students' predictable behavior in this class next.

Session 1307 wants early dismissal during the first meeting. Class dismissed.