Classroom Science Initiatives

There was no post yesterday because there was no net in the campus, and even today it’s painstakingly slow.

The joke around here is that the howling winds from the most recent typhoon blew over the high-tension wires of the underground cabling and the wireless connections hooking up the school to the outside world.

It’s amazing how much productivity was nearly ground to a screeching halt yesterday; that it almost served as an extension of the three-day vacation, except that we were in the work setting already.

Bad enough that a lot of people were in Monday mode and almost forgot that their classes followed the Tuesday schedule.

It’s also the first day back for the Integrated School students, after having been away for the whole of last week.

Well, for most of them, that is. The athletes who participated in last week’s Sports Camp got fewer rest days.

@@ Things are moving forward in terms of someone who is abusing a position that he shouldn’t be holding anymore in the first place.

There are already some sectors that will be speaking up that this ego-tripping student-activity non-supporter does not represent their interests with what he is doing (or not doing) with the funds given to them.

I just wish more students would take the initiative in informing their parents about the goings-on, so we could have more voices.

But if there’s ever any accusation of undermining, the question is who really undermined what first?

@@ This, by the way, is already the start of the second half of the term. This means in a few weeks’ time we would have academic advising again. The dean’s office already came out with a list of offerings for next term, and included a copy of the special class form for those whose expected subjects were not on the list.

@@ A few days or weeks ago I was talking about how someone who has extreme shyness may be excused from not being able to open up things or questions face to face, but through text messages.

I have just encountered a case that goes over the line though. This person says nothing when we are in the same place, but after leaving, starts inquiries of an almost embarrassing frankness.

And when given the opportunity to ask the same things face to face with no one else around (the excuse put forward for not speaking up, because someone might overhear) still chooses to text when already seated beside each other.

What’s even stranger about that is that during the course of the conversation, there has been reading between the lines going on as to the answer to the initial question. But even that is not enough.

When time comes to part again, that’s when the text messages start again, expressing impatience (something not usually accompanying the shyness part) for not getting a direct answer to the question posed, which in the first place had the disclaimer “please don’t get mad” which means that it’s already deemed a delicate topic in the first place. Bright side: replies in text can be read over and over.