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

There are some other quirks of the enrollment process that showed up yesterday that I do not want the students to know about, so I’ll write about it here.

Some subjects, particularly the upperclassmen offerings, and in this case, for the school of engineering, were given a class count of less than the maximum class size, because the acting dean knows that there is only that number of regular students left in that batch who, according to their flowcharts, can take that subject.

It is not always the case though: some of those upperclassmen offerings are floating – in other words, do not have any pre-requisites.

Thus, especially for the irregular sophomores and some freshmen who are bordering dangerously near the minimum number of units that can be taken for any given term, they have to bolster up their load with any subjects that are available.

This is also because they have been irregular for some number of terms already, and have almost taken up all the minor subjects that are in their flowchart.

So I was surprised when one of the students came up to me to say that there are already a [teenage] number of students enrolled in that floating section, so it was already closed.

Apparently, the people at the registrar’s office did not see that in the column beside the number of students “expected” or “limited” (depending on whether the number is small or large respectively) it was blank.

This is where in some subjects that are taken up by most (if not all) courses, in that column, sometimes it is written “no free slots” which means that none of those who are not supposed to take it regularly – and possibly the older students of the same course who have not taken it up – can enroll in it.

I told the secretary that the next time the academic advisers have a meeting, the people from the registrar’s office really should be present, so that we can put down all our concerns on the table and prevent these mix-ups.

Session 915 got closed out in the subjects listed in the pre-enrollment form. Class dismissed.