Chapter 943 - First Lecture
"From now on, every 2 weeks, we will have a quiz.
And your grades will be summed up and used as your midterm scores.
Isn't that great?"
(:T^T:)
Everyone smiled bitterly with invisible tears in their eyes.
Why did they feel like his majesty was too intentional?
Why give them hope only to crush it later on?
Those that took up to 7 courses for the semester were in pain.
They now regretted it.
Funny enough, on the last day for dropping courses, many of them didn't bother to do so as their pride got the best out of them.
No, it wasn't entirely pride.
It was just that back in their empires, they did a lot of things, running everywhere.
So many felt like they could handle whatever came their way.
Plus, many took in a lot of courses now, so that next semester, they should be somewhat free.
Looking at the printing curriculum given to them on orientation day, they knew how many courses they had to take each year.
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Additionally, they could tell which were co-requisites and prerequisites.
They had everything planned out.
Why?
Because they wanted to sign up for work-study next semester.
So they wanted a somewhat free school time for them.
One should know that at present, secretaries amd some of the lecturers had already begun jotting and noting everything down from the weather record books brought in by everyone.
A single city or town could produce up to 3 lenders a month.
Why?
Because they wrote down every slight weather change that took place each 10 minutes
How the clouds & stars looked like, and even how the wind felt like through the primitive wind vane movements... everything was recorded.
Even landslides, scorching heat and so on were recorded based on particular unique stones etc.
Anyway, for this semester, the secretaries and lecturers did their best to extrapolate the data and note them down correctly.
And from next semester, after the students had basic knowledge of weather, then, they would begin charting, graphing and estimating certain things.
Of course, by the end of the semester, these secretaries might've only gone through at most 6 months from the past.
With every city and town in the various empires bringing records and books, they couldn't do more than that.
To make matters worse, every year had over 40 books.
The year 800, the year 900, the year 1010… all had over 40 book records.
Of course, the students only brought at most 6 months of records from a single year when they came to Baymard.
They randomly picked out a year and brought in 6 months of work for that period.
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Anyway, once the students have acquired more knowledge, they'll start graphing everything, noting the constant factors they saw, and so on.
Take for example, wind patterns.
Because of the Rotation of the world and certain factors, the wind directions typically always fell in the same estimated range.
Be it the prevailing winds from the northern hemisphere and so on... All these were essential for flying planes.
They needed to predict and extrapolate all they knew from each region to better understand the weather.
The academy even had its own hot air balloons to go up in the air for taking temperatures and running some tests while in the Academy.
And next semester... No! It was even earlier than next semester.
This December, the students would team up with the lectures and work nonstop out on the field.
And when the next semester began in January, they would work part-time, earn their salaries while studying.
So many felt like oiling more courses for this semester and keeping the next semester very open.
But who would've known that their plan would backfire?
There was just so much to do and so much to study for the upcoming midterms, as well as assignments.
So they felt momentarily overwhelmed.
And now, Landon was rubbing it in by giving them bi-weekly quizzes.
Wasn't this too much?
Of course, they only felt like this because of the midterms.
After that, they would eventually relax again.
But at this money, they felt like beating their former selves for taking so many credits.
Dammit!
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Landon wrote the class code and name on the board before facing everyone again.
[ATM A 106: Climate & Its changes]
"In this class, you will address me as Professor Landon or Prof. for short.
Now, before we talk about Climate, who can tell me what weather is?"
Instantly, several people raised their hands while others started flipping pages of some other books.
"Hmmm."
"Weather is the condition of the air or the atmosphere on our planet."
"Great answer. What's your name?"
"Benjamin Neto, Prof."
"Benjamin! Good answer!
"Weather is an atmospheric situation which occurs in a given moment in a specific place.
So when you look outside the window at your home, what's the weather like?
Is it cold, or is it hot? Is it rainy or snowy? Cloudy or windy?
All this is what we call observing the weather.
But, in contrast, how would you all describe Climate?"
Climate?
Many furrowed their brows deep in thought as they tried their best to remember what exactly climate was.
During one of their other courses called , it was briefly mentioned.
But no importance seemed to have been placed on it during the class.
Why was weather different from climate?
What made it so distinct?
They crossed their arms and searched their brains so hard. But couldn't come up with anything.
Of course, some came up with different theories and raised their hands.
"Before answering, everyone should first state their names."
"Pigoro Swain, Prof.
I think Climate is the study of clouds."
"Hmm... Good try. But no."
"James Tomer, here Prof. Climate is the study of ice masses."
"No."
"Temperature."
"Close, but no."
"Hurricanes"
"No."
"Rocks"
"No."
"_"
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Landon smiled at everyone's perplexed expression.
"Alright. All your attempts were clever but wrong.
Now, we've said that weather is the condition of air or atmosphere around our planet.
But the thing is, even though we only have one atmosphere around Hertfilia, the weather isn't the same all over the world.
There are many different factors that can change the atmosphere in particular regions.
And together, they determine what the weather is like from one place to the next.
These factors include temperature, wind speed & direction, humidity, and so much more.
But, when one is talking about the overall weather pattern from specific parts of the world, then you're talking about the area's climate.
Weather is the minute-to-minute changes in the atmosphere.
While Climate, on the other hand, is what the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area.
The weather is constantly changing from rainy, sunny, cloudy and so on.
But Climate is different.
Im short, while the weather can change in a few hours, a region's climate takes hundreds and thousands of years to change or shift even by an inch.
On this day around the year 800, it was probably sunny with a few cold winds.
And on this day around the year 900, the weather was probably the same.
That climate.
Factors like altitude, sea currents, landscapes and so on, influence the element like temperatures, precipitation and so on... Which in turn make the climate from each region carry from one place to another.
And that... is what we need to track, determining a weather pattern for each region.
We need to determine the range of days when snow would fall in each region or when the rain would start falling, and so on.
Here in Baymard, snow started around 17~30 of December.
That was its range.
It always fell in that range.
Every area has its own unique weather pattern that has stayed constant for thousands and thousands of years, only moving ever so slightly.
And in a sense, that's what climate is.
So, do you all understand the difference between weather and climate now?"
~Ohhhhh.
Everyone opened their mouths in understanding while nodding excitedly.
Yes, they did.
They now knew the difference between the two.
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And so Landon began his first lecture for the semester.
But while some were filled with excitement, not too far away, others were filled with panic instead.
Dammit!
How could this happen?