Case 1: No classes --> Pain in the ass
HS: No classes = yipee!
College: (well at least for me as a college student), spells make-up classes
Instructors: "My schedule's torn!!! X( "
It's a good thing I scheduled the submission of exercises on Wednesday next week. But still, my Thursday classes will suffer for the lack of preparations for next Friday's exams.
Case 2: Online rants
To make the long story short:
It came to me that my CMSC 150 lab classes are nearing their end. This was when my roommate, Sir Dulds, told me about the ongoing thread in yupielbi.org
Under one thread entitled "Worst subject ever"in the acads topics of the forums, CMSC 150, which I am teaching right now, was one of the most popular answers. Some were having a hard time, some hated the subject, some both. What caught my attention? This certain post:
sa ngayon cmsc150, olats na olats ako dun. T__T di ako marunong magprogram sa yacas! ~__~ - "Buknoy"
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I clicked on Buknoy, and voila, user Buknoy's info was listed down... He is a current student of mine.
What made the series of events more intense was when I saw him in the ICS corridors the same afternoon...
(heart beat** heart beat**)
Trouble for Buknoy? Nah.... read on...
Of course, as a teacher, it hurts to see such comments. What made me not loose my cool when I was scanning the forums was the date of Buknoy's post: Aug 08 2006, 10:56PM. Yes, he posted the entry last year, and he is a second taker of the course.
Nothing happened when I saw him. I just confirmed that it was his post and that he posted it last year. No harm done.
Sure there'll be an action point in my part to check who knows and who doesn't. Perhaps a special lab exercise customized specially for every individual student... Yeah, that'll do.
