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

A few more minor hitches yesterday in the fact that some students who (through the grapevine) were thought to be ineligible for enrollment anymore showed up for academic advising. And trust their timing that I'm the only one up for bat for that duty.

For the first, an incoming third year Business Administration student who used to be engineering, and had trouble from his very first term missing his Trigonometry Applications finals because his parents just migrated abroad and he was left to run the family business. I also seem to remember he was in the very first Science Fiction Literature class, but in my knowledge stopped going to class towards the end of the term when the film projects were being assigned.

Anyway, since the administrators are in the middle of their pre-school year workshop off campus, it was left to the college secretary to coordinate with the registrars in charge to verify (since the list was supposed to be confidential) if this student was still eligible for enrollment.

It turned out that he was, having a cumulative grade point average from his last three terms of 1.02, barely squeaking by.

That's when I suggested to the secretary that the enrollment folders of all the students seeking advising this late be sent to the registrars office, so that we would not make the mistake of approving for advising people who would turn out to be ineligible - since we don't know who are and who are not.

Before this could be implemented though, two other students in the same fringe showed up, one enrolling for his friend who had a CGPA of 0.98 - reconsidered according to the registrars - and another who missed the mark by a relatively large margin of 0.12 - having a CGPA of 0.88 which still means that he had more failures overall than subjects passed. This guy also claims that no such letter of ineligibility ever arrived at their home, but then I don't know when they were sent out.

He has to wait for the directors and dean to return from their workshop tomorrow to plead his case.

Session 1121 failed majority of his subjects. Class dismissed.