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.

First day of academic advising, and as expected, the computer engineering juniors (about eighty percent of which are irregular) didn't show up – including a certain student.

If they approach me about it during the other schedules for the other batches and courses, they will be relegated to the back of the line after everyone else.

Speaking of which, I had examples of the same type of procrastination in my general science requirement class field trip. I know that they could buy tickets in the park on the day itself, but the point is, not everyone can do that otherwise there would be no discount in the first place. The administration has to have had a record of the school having bought a minimum number of tickets during the week previous otherwise it would not acknowledge the school visit.

So, typically of some students, they are again riding on the hard work of the others.

Anyway, just to finish what I was talking about last time, the last problem in their third exam had a block sliding down an incline, acted on only by gravity and friction.

I gave the distance and time of the motion, until it reached the end of the incline. They were supposed to get the acceleration, and from there be able to compute for the coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the plane.

Afterwards, they were to compute for the velocity it had at the end of the ramp, and the time and horizontal distance the block traveled to the ground, given the vertical distance, again using the principles of projectile motion.

In the latest lectures of my Electromagnetic Theory class, a certain student was able to get a perfect score in the exercise for the first time in the entire term.

Not surprisingly, this is because he borrowed the exercise notebook of his highest scoring classmate right after it was submitted for the exercise, on the pretense of photocopying the answer to the previous exercise (and getting him off my back).

My question is, is it wrong for me to now decrease the perfect score for that exercise to six points when it usually was ten points (sometimes twelve, fourteen or sixteen depending on the number of items), just so that it won't reflect as much in the accumulation of points afterwards? Besides, I will find out in the exam later if he really did understand that concept of he just copied.

Session 1561 may not cheat during exams, but it doesn't mean peeking at another's paper when no one's looking is out of the question. Class dismissed.