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

It's the ninth week of classes already. My general science requirement mechanics lecture class students are already having their third exam this Friday.

Maybe having an exam every three weeks IS fast. Since we only have two meetings a week, that means we have a test after every five lecture sessions.

Is that too soon? I don't know. Also, looking at it from the point of view of the entire term, we have thirteen weeks of lecture classes, which means twenty six meetings.

The first meeting is just orientation, so it doesn't count. Out of the twenty five remaining, subtract the four meetings for the exams, leaving twenty one one-and-a-half-hour periods for the lectures, or thirty one point five hours total.

Figure in also twenty minutes each session for the exercise, and that leaves just twenty four point five hours for the lectures. Is that really enough for the seven concepts used in the experiments, which means three point five hours for each?

I don't know, but I've adjusted the arrangement of the topics in the syllabus several times in the past, but not once in the past three years, except for the schedule of exams.

So far also, my three other co-teachers have not complained about needing more hours or removing topics.

It's also been a while since I last heard the students say that we've been discussing too fast, not since the Mathematical Methods classes where we had four meetings a week.

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In other news, the Commission on Elections' justifications for allowing the winning council members to appoint for the vacant positions, but not preventing them from choosing those who lost in the same position, is that it really becomes their decision whether getting fifty percent plus one votes from the entire college population is enough, or they could settle for the percentage of those who voted.

Besides, it's really the students themselves who are saying, with their choice for president and other positions, that they are also relying on these people's judgments should the situation arise when there are vacancies. There have been no complaints in the past three years that we have had this policy implemented.

Session 1551 hopes on being appointed if ever he loses in any position he runs in. Class dismissed.