Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

I will continue with the challenges that we have encountered with the enrollment system for the new term, because most of these details I cannot reveal in the version of this journal that I let the students read.

For one thing, it seems that the Registrar’s office did not receive the memo of our meeting during the academic advising streamlining weeks before we actually started.

And although all the students who have wanted to add and drop subjects have approached us advisers as instructed by the registrar personnel (they won’t accept the students’ request unless there is a signature of the assigned adviser) this time they won’t even accept it even though it has my specific instruction as to what section to drop and add.

This is because one of the classes in NSTP had changed dates and times, so that the freshmen students resulted in having continuous classes from 8 am to 410pm on two days of the week.

Apparently they were not informed that having five or more hours of successive classes is the only other reason we academic advisers gave for dropping a subject and changing sections.

When they called up the faculty room after I had sent just two students with the approval for changing sections (not that I believed they were ultimately planning to go from a teacher with a bad reputation in trigonometry to one who is less strict, which I know for a fact is not true) they said that they would not allow the change until they heard from their director.

This is because they were afraid the whole class would ask to be moved, when in fact I checked with them the enrollment count of both classes before approving the transfer, so I would not sign any more section changes after that. Now I had to ask the associate dean to contact their director, although there is no rush and it could wait until tomorrow when the associate dean will be in campus.

After all, my first response to them was that NSTP only meets during the first two and last two weeks of the term. The rest of the time, attendance hours are marked by appointments made with the various teachers for consultation on their project proposal, which could be environmental, social action, community building or school promotion. That means whatever they decide to do about this case, it doesn’t matter to me. It will be the students who get frustrated anyway.

There are some more minor problems with enrollment, but I will just mention them as I remember them.

Session 751’s request for change of section is denied at this point. Class dismissed.