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

It’s up the fourth day of classes for the second term and I found out that my co-teacher Red still met with the Differential Calculus class that the associate dean, during the first day of classes, asked me if I wanted to take over (preferring it over Analytical Geometry).

I’m actually okay with that because it means one less new preparation for the term, bringing it down to three: interfacing lecture and lab classes, and the new reformulated and revitalized Graphics Two (which will be Graphics One next school year – if that is not too confusing).

And the excellent freshmen engineering students I had last term will still be my students in that latter class, only not in a lecture environment like we had in Mathematical Methods One, the same with DIFCALC and AGEOMET, which are regular block offerings for the first year engineering majors.

Maybe the associate dean did not go through with the reassignment after all.

I found out this day another valid reason the students may have for changing sections (whether or not it is because they are choosing between the easier or more acceptable among the teachers for that course): getting the most number of units for the term. That, for me, is also acceptable.

A sophomore engineering student, Till-y, showed me this possibility, finding out that switching from one section to the other of one subject, she can add one more unit (actually, of Graphics Two).

Since this is an unprecedented case, the registrars’ personnel in fact asked for a full letter from me, the academic adviser, about the procedure and intent instead of just signing the pertaining blanks in the dropping and adding form of the student’s enrollment folder.

I will have to bring it up in the next academic advisers meeting.

There was another one from the business administration students: changing from between two or more electives after finding out the teachers of each.

Technically, it is not “changing sections”, so it is supposed to be valid.

But there is still the possibility that the students are only asking for it to avoid teachers they believe to be undesirable.

This is especially true since the students, disarmingly enough, admitted that their reason for the change was to “maintain the possibility of a high GPA” for this term, which means that they think the teacher of the class they are currently enrolled in gives low grades. Request denied, if it were up to me.

Session 761 fell below the required number of units at this point. Class dismissed.