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

Another set of chinks in the procedure that surfaced even after all the preparation and additional rules we set up to streamline the academic advising is that first of all, the registrar’s office, without any consultation, scheduled the preliminary enlistment of students (that is, the word we use for when the students encode the subjects they will be taking for the next term) starting from the third day of finals week to the end.

The first day was for freshmen; the second was for sophomores, and so on, with the afternoon of the last day being allotted for all the late enlistees.

We were surprised that there were students showing up saying that they were able to enroll in the computer lecture class, but were closed out in the computer lab class. The same was true with the lecture and lab classes of some of the major subjects of the engineering students, even the sophomores upwards.

The culprit for this turned out to be that the maximum class size for the lecture classes were five less than their supposed number, which meant that the number of students who could enroll in each were not equal. The lab classes accept fewer students because of the limited number of computer terminals in the laboratories, but there are more lab sections opened

This is also the reason why some of the freshmen, even though they were still considered as regular students, got closed out in some sections.

I guess it was a good thing that the enlistment was “tried” out before the course card distribution and these problems were found out early, instead of all being discovered afterwards, when the term break would have started and people who could find solutions to it would not be available.

By the way, since the computer database had the definition that those taking all the regular subjects of the block for the next term are determined as regular (even if they are taking more subjects than those for their block, and even if they had failures in prior terms not affecting their flowchart for the next term) half of the students in the entire college are considered to be regular for the second term – at least, before the distribution of course cards.
I don’t know what the count was after the grades were given out.

There were also some students who could not enlist in some of their regular block subjects because of conflicts in schedule. And here in this case I am pertaining to subjects in that only one section is offered and thus there is no alternative to the one section for the students to enroll in. But that was an oversight in the assignment of schedules by the associate dean, and was thus easily remedied.

This means the system still needs a lot of ironing out.

Session 749 finishes enlistment here. Class dismissed.