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

Updates on my potential change of grades, since the preceding Friday was the last day for change of grades: first, Anthony passed Trig App. He had started going to my class this term in fact, because he thought that he failed, when in fact, I was just waiting for his excuse letter for not taking the finals on the scheduled date.

He knew he had a low score in the special finals that I gave him. After all, he didn’t ask me about the coverage of the test and I don’t think he was able to ask his classmates for the pointers.

What he didn’t know was that because of his above average scores in the rest of the requirements, he needed a lower score than 60% in the finals to get a grade of 1.0 in the whole course.

That was the reason anyway that I went out of my way to contact him about taking the test. I didn’t contact the three other students because they needed a very high grade in the finals (an unrealistic expectation given their past test performances) to pass the course.

I reminded him about passing his excuse letter when he attended my Math 1 class last Thursday (he still stumbled over that subject and I couldn’t do anything about it – so he’s still my student for this term) and he gave his excuse letter, with a by-line by his cousin last Friday.

Now he passed his dropping form for Trig App and the adding form for another subject, Introduction to Philosophy, I think, that he will take instead.

Christian, according to his upperclassman cousin, has elected not to enroll here anymore, after failing most of his subjects last term. In his case, even though he did have the chance to pass Trig App if he took the test, I would not have recommended him to rely on that because unless he really took the lessons to heart, he would have a difficult time with the post-requisite differential and integral calculus and analytic geometry.

Best that he start out with a clean slate (and hopefully a better academic attitude) in whatever school he’s transferring to – that is, if they even want to acknowledge going here when there would be virtually no classes to credit.

Leonore did not pass me anything last Friday of her finals in Graphics One. Even though she approached me today to tell me about it, I had to say that it would not be up to me anymore to pass her (even if she passed her requirement this late) but up to the Registrar’s Office if they would accept my change of grade even after the deadline.

It’s already suspicious if she will really do better this term, because my cousin and my uncle already asked me respectively if we had undergraduate classes scheduled on Saturdays and everyday up to 6pm. When I replied negative to both (there are only classes up to 6pm two times a week and that’s only Accounting 1A), that’s when they told me the girl told her parents she had classes up to that time and on that day. It looks like she’s just giving an excuse to stay out of the house longer than necessary.

And that’s all for today. Tomorrow I’ll discuss my Math 1 classes today and last Friday, today’s Trig App lecture and hopefully my mechanics session later.