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.

Finally the student version is up again, adding my writing load starting today, but at least I can just continue on my aborted tales from last time.

Some time before I was talking about the new policy that students who enroll in a lecture subject are also automatically enrolled in the co-requisite lab subject, for all science, engineering and computer science courses that have both.

Now it seems there is still at least one kink in the system that was not coordinated to all levels (registrar's office, academic advisers, students, parents) before it was implemented, because reports now arise of one student who enrolled in the general science requirement lecture class during the recently concluded term but inexplicably was closed out in all of the accompanying lab classes. Thus, he only gets a grade in lecture, but since he has not finished the lab, he (since he is an engineering student) cannot get the post requisite introduction to electricity and magnetism subject.

An alternative could have been for him to "fail" in the lecture so that he could take both subjects again - together this time - in the next term. That way, there is no possibility anymore that he could get a different grade in either subject.

One oversight here is that the registrar's office did not insist that he either enroll again in both or neither. If they had, I know at least that the student could have been accomodated in my lab class, which only had seventeen students out of a possible twenty (technically nineteen by the official count).

Unfortunately, as far as I know, it still was not brought up during the freshman orientation earlier today when the enrollment policies were discussed, so it will fall to the lecture and lab teachers to orient the students about the rules on this during the first week of classes starting this coming Monday.

The question is, whose job is it to make sure that the teachers know about it for next week and that the implementation is made?

Session 1119 enrolled in the lecture but not the lab. Class dismissed.