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.

For once, for lack of something better to put there, the topic that was supposed to be for here got put in the students accessible version.

But I didn't write everything there, such as the implied reasons why I will be making the changes. It would have been too obvious to point accusing fingers at the slacking students, even without mentioning any specific names or subjects.

The reports I had to grade for this term are pathetic. Unlike the times before when it used to take me days to finish reading everything from one class, this time it took less than four hours.

The most dismal thing I saw was people taping photocopies of tables, graphs and circuits from their lab notebook to the report.

A report is supposed to be impressive, like a thesis. It says a lot on what they believe about the quality of their own work when they just throw these things together haphazardly.

I'm also talking about computer science majors whose main bent on technology seems to be scanning their handwritten drawings then copying and pasting them into their document for printing.

Again, shoddy workmanship is behind it. If they knew how much higher their grade would be if the teacher actually saw the effort behind what they laid out and not just what they wrote.

Yeah, it's partly my fault for not providing them with a proper example.

But I know now that that's not enough. There really should be a sense of them seeing an improvement in their own work, which is now why I will be requiring them to make handwritten (to prevent copy and pasting from others) reports for each experiment, which will be rated and rerated depending on how well they write up their insights and results.

Just so that these students will learn, I'm so tempted to fail them here and let them see the new implementation next time around.

Session 2117 knows students won't learn from something taught when the course cards are given. Class dismissed.