‘Ware the Weather, Woe are We! Thu. Feb. 14

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  • Campus remains closed, still, again, on Thu. Feb. 14.
  • At this point, I’ve heard back from nearly all of you, and I’m relieved that you are all at least ok if not better.
  • I take some (many) deep breaths and resign myself to the situation at hand. Given that we haven’t been able to meet at all this week, that you didn’t have regular access to tutors on Friday or Sunday, and that many of you have reported poor internet access this week, here are the changes we’ll make:
    • Bring your first draft of QM Quiz Q4 to QM on Tuesday morning for a quiz workshop; the revised version will be due Thu. Feb. 21 at the beginning of QM. You will submit CM Qu¡xam! C3 at the beginning of CM on Tuesday afternoon. Please continue not to discuss either of these with your classmates or anyone else (other than me) until after Tuesday.
    • Both EM PS#6 and QM PS#5, both originally with CSS contributions due this Fri. Feb. 15, have been postponed until Fri. Feb. 22. Because of school closure earlier in the week, there was already no CM PS due this week.
    • Because of the Presidents’ Day holiday on Mon. Feb. 18, our original course calendar had EM Qu¡xam! E3 scheduled for an at-home version. We will delay that until the following week and take it in class.
  • I’ll post a Tentative Updated Course Calendar soon.
  • It is hard to see how we will be able to be successful with this week’s APLS EA, EM, and QM material, now postponed till next week, unless you seriously engage with the curated material, described in this post. As of this posting, the material has been available for over a day, and I have not yet seen anyone contribute. Of course one of the challenges this week has been irregular internet access for some of you. But please do contribute to the curated materials, as soon as you can.