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

One the third day of the eighth week of classes, after my Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab class, we had a meeting about the academic advising for the tenth week of classes.

I came up with a couple of suggestions for us to base the meeting around, just to show everyone how serious I was about how to get our system running smoothly. They were as follows:

1. Announce that those who do not go for advising on the 10th week of classes have a chance of getting closed out in some subjects like last term.

This would hopefully stop those upperclassmen that habitually take their bloody time and do not go for advising until after the end of the term.

2. Regular students are priority for major subjects and cannot be closed out.

This is a suggestion to the vice dean and the registrars office that students who do not have any failures should already be padded in the count of each section, especially the major subjects.

3. Course cards should be required for advising/adjustment at the end of the term.

Just like #1, this is a deterrent against the students who wait until the last minute to do all the steps in their enrollment for the succeeding term instead of trying out the skill of preparedness that we want them to cultivate.

4. At the end of the term, those adjusting will be given priority over those who have not yet gone for advising.

This is another consequence to the lazy students against not advising during the tenth week of the term, as is announced term after term. Do they think that we do this just for fun?

5. At the end of the term, it would be easier if subjects already have “current number of enrollees” for each subject that the advisers will be assigning to the students.

The preceding would be a prevention measure against students having to return to the adviser several times, especially during the adjustment period after the course card distribution, because they are told by the Registrar’s Office that a certain section approved for them to enroll in is already closed, and another one should be chosen instead. It is a waste of the time and energy of the student, the adviser and the registrar’s personnel. It also goes hand in hand with the second suggestion.

I’ll have to bookmark session 645 at this point for now, and continue next time. Class dismissed.