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

Back from the extended Labor Day weekend holiday.

The other day, the first one during the three-day leave of the secretary, the guard at the gate called up late in the morning telling us about a visitor who said she had a schedule for interview. We knew that our secretary would not set such during the day not only that she was not around, but also when the Vice Dean was also not present. Eventually we just told the guard to tell her to go to the college faculty room.

Because she didn’t show up afterwards, and during lunch we dismissed the notion that she could have gotten hopelessly lost on the way to our room, we thought afterwards that maybe she was applying for the Integrated School, and realized the miscommunication with the guard when he said “college”.

In the afternoon, one of my coteachers was using the phone when she saw a sheaf of papers left at the secretary’s table beside the door. It was in the name of the visitor earlier. It turns out that she is an applicant for student transferee and not for faculty.

I asked when she passed by to drop off her papers. One of the registrar personnel, who is on loan to us while our secretary is on leave, said that she went to the registrar’s office earlier (so she had been finally correctly directed after all, before she got to our office) where she talked to their head. No wonder even the Dean’s secretary (who gives the final interview to all reconsidered applicants) didn’t have any schedule about her.

The registrar’s office already listed down the subjects that she can have credited from her previous school, so her next step in her enrollment is academic advising.

That’s where yours truly comes in, being the only one among the army of six faculty members present to be approached for that.

But she hasn’t returned, and it’s already the third day since her papers were first left here. Not that there’s any rush with the enrollment, although I am personally spearheading an effort to see to it that the students as much as possible strictly adhere to the deadlines of enrollment, and the three digit surcharges for late processing do not seem to be a strong deterrent.

And on the other end of the spectrum, as science lab coordinator I also had to sign the clearances of two students who are transferring TO other schools. They were both my students in mechanics lecture, so I had to coordinate with the lab technician first about breakages or lost ball bearings they may have incurred during their lab sessions with Miss Edna.

One of them is a relatively big loss because he passed my subject (which shows his analytic and computational aptitude), although the other one failed. So much for going against the stereotypes of athletes and academic performance then. The reason she gave for moving to an all girl private school is because they have a more comprehensive and beneficial volleyball varsity scholarship program. Shows what she thinks of our offering.

There was also another student who had a leave of absence form signed, very belatedly. He did not enroll for the previous term. Better than being charged with AWOL, I guess.

So ends session number 586. The class is dismissed.