Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Rode in to school with my cousin today, who is going to be studying here also. He had finished a two-year course in electronics in another school, but now his parents want him to finish a four-year course.

He took the entrance test in the middle of November and got the results on the second week of December. I was the one to pay his confirmation fee for him after that.

He already enrolled and paid yesterday, but it was only when he and my uncle got home that they realized most of the subjects listed in his class list he had already taken, and two of the subjects had a conflicting schedule.

His parents (and my mom) wanted us to talk to the dean immediately about it, but I suggested going to the registrar's office first.

They did, and were given the reason that only a maximum of 30 units from any previous course can be credited. This is different from what the students last term told me why they were repeating subjects they had already taken before transferring, which is that only subjects with grades of 85% and above can be credited. Another rationale I heard before that (at least for Math) was that the syllabus was different, that's why it couldn't be credited.

I did tell my student, Roy, in Mathematical Methods (who unfortunately failed), that he could use his Student Council position to petition for crediting of all previously taken subjects. I don't know if he will be pushing through with that campaign.

Also found out today that there is a change in my load assignment, or more specifically, in the schedule of my assigned load. One of the laboratory classes has been moved to Fridays, which means that there will be only two lab classes on Wednesdays now.

It also seems one of my Kinematics sections, the one that was supposed to be for Tuesday and Friday mornings, has been cancelled. Now my only other Kinematics classes are on Tuesdays and Fridays, 1120am-1250pm then 1-3pm. They also have a limit of 29 students each.

The lab classes have a limit of 19 students each. Kinematics lab will be a team teaching effort for these three classes by the way, with my co-worker David. We have yet to find out the division of labor (checking of requirements) and of lecturing, although I'm okay with attending all the sessions.

But we have decided that we will require the students two lab manuals per group, one as the teacher's copy and the other as the student's copy. And there will be three individual written reports instead of two written reports and one oral report, which we know has already been taken up extensively in their English subject Speechfests last term.

I also still have the TrigApp class, which is on Tuesdays and Fridays 8-930am. I already gave the Mathematical Methods books I used last term to David, who is supposed to be handling it this term, although he said that the section may be dissolved.

That's a total of 15 teaching units.

Oh, and classes start tomorrow.