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.

I've noticed the evolving predominant mood of this journal over the years.

I somehow get into the habit of writing about something like "teachers' secrets to requirements they don't want the students to know" and I reach the point where when I sit down to write, that's the angle I'm looking at to put down here, instead of anything else that could come up that's borderline appropriate.

Are there any things otherwise that I avoid writing about here?

Well, there's routine, and other normal everyday stuff that I otherwise can't come up with an interesting spin to. Plus, of course, things that I think would be better in the student-accessible version.

So it's only after being in front of the keyboard for five minutes that I get an idea of what I might put here for today.

Back to a certain student: the day before their exam, when he said he'd pick up his exercise notebook at 2pm but he didn't show up, he goes to my class instead, which is from 240pm to 410pm.

He actually opens the door in front, but I'm prepared for him (thank the glass window installed) so I tell him what I shouldn't be telling him before he could speak up, which is that I'm still in class.

He waits outside the classroom for me, sitting down beside the door.

And he questions my correction to his exercise compared to his notes.

That's where I tell him his notes are wrong (which he even checks in front of me with a calculator) before he believes me.

And he waits for me again after the exam, just to ask if the exam would have been easier (like the exercises, he said) if it was closed notes.

Session 2383 hates people who don't go with their intuition - unless he really doesn't have any. Class dismissed.