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

Up until now the college secretary still prints out six pieces of paper containing all of the classes for the term. And always, these papers have corrections on them that are not reflected in all the copies, especially the ones in the fourth floor central lobby, which is what the students usually check.

Like my class, for example. Since there is no more external faculty attendance checking, I have set it up with my students in my Intermediate Robotics lecture class that we will not meet in E401 anymore (which is one floor up and four rooms down from the faculty room) but in E304 (same floor, closest room).

I do not have to make a note to the administration about the move.

The students know and I know, so that's all that matters. I will still meet my class regularly, so the students will be able to vouch that I do not need to have any make up classes if for some reason the other teachers and staff check our former room.

I would have wanted to have our class in the robotics lab, but there are already two classes there at the same time as my class.

Two years from the original decision to split the lab to make way for more classes and it's already not enough again. Last term the former robotics lab had to be used for a third simultaneous class of laboratory, equipment brought down there every meeting by the students (lack of equipment is another matter).

I may have to do that again if the lecture needs a hands-on supplement.

By the way, I told my students that unlike the other classes with a lecture and lab component, this one has the breakdown at fifty-fifty, not sixty-forty in favor of the lecture, or seventy-thirty.

This is because they are really expected to produce something in the lab.

The class, by the way, is mostly, third year students, even the ones who are now part of the irregular block. This means that there really will have to be a lot of review on Switching Theory, Assembly Language and Computer Interfacing.

Session 1805 will have to get advanced lessons in future subjects to get ahead of this one. Class dismissed.