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

Student Affairs Head Ronnie is thinking of making the planned freshmen – upperclassmen acquaintance party on Friday a compulsory attendance affair. This is because a week from the event and there is still not enough response on the part of the students for at least a majority of them showing up.

The upperclassmen are in fact jaded by their previous experience in that area that there will always be people who will remain indifferent to the occasion.

I told my cousin, who is part of the preparation committee, that it can be made an alternative class, which is what I’m planning for my 1-230pm Trig session in the first place, which will be in conflict with the scheduled activities.

My cousin said that from the meeting last Friday afternoon, Sir Ronnie had already contemplated the possibility, because the other option of just holding make up sessions for all the classes on that day added another layer of logistic complication.

Today is also the start of the membership drive for the established and pending organizations even though technically they are not pending anymore because they were able to submit all the requirements last Friday.

When we left last Friday there was already one table labeled for one of the socio-civic groups who is just short of being a political party, of which I am a faculty adviser. In fact it’s one of at least two groups that I’m advising, the other being the Young Educators’ Society that got me as an adviser last school year.

I hope the rumor I heard wasn’t true that they are planning to give particular organizations only two or three days to recruit members and not the whole week. The supposed rationale I heard for this is that it is to minimize the number of tables that will be used, and so that the freshmen would not be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of groups they could join.

Of course, unless the complete list is put out on the first day anyway, the freshmen may think that what they see today is all there is, and join them immediately, only to regret it when their preferable choices come out the next day. It will also be a good way for them to practice their time management picking the extra curricular activities they can be part of.

It’s already the case that I know of several students (even though they are limited to being officers of only ONE student org) who are still volunteers to man the booths of two or three orgs during their vacant periods. This includes my cousin, who is the president of the Badminton Club but is also involved in Y.E.S.

There is also an upper limit of three hundred pesos to the membership fee any org can ask of the students. The Extreme Sports Club (formerly only the Paintball Club until the Wall Climbing enthusiasts made themselves known and they merged due to similarity of interest and overlapping of interested founders) is asking for that much because of the expensive equipment they are using.

Good thing there’s no Scuba Club yet then.

The Badminton Club is asking for one hundred pesos (just for renting the courts and keeping them supplied with shuttlecocks), and Y.E.S. set it at one fifty.

The socio-civic group I mentioned earlier, who wants to call themselves “Tinig” despite my protests that it sounds like a chorale group, is not asking for any membership fee, just like a political organization. But we the supervisors will only be sure if they field candidates for the student council election, who, by the law of the student organizations, could not be officers of orgs also.