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.

For those students who are habitually avoiding certain teachers and preferring others, but could not do so because their enrollment form did not place the names of the instructors handling the classes, today and tomorrow are the days they get a chance to breach the “security”.

The college secretary, whose last day before the start of the new term was yesterday, put up the list of classes, rooms AND TEACHERS before she left.

That means those who go for academic advising today can still drop subjects of teachers they “hate” and add those handled by the teachers they like without being interrogated by the adviser, who is technically only allowed – starting next week – to allow dropping and adding of a different section of the same subject (or a different elective) if there really is a conflict of schedule. Otherwise, the student can just drop.

There will be no questions asked for dropping. That is the student’s prerogative, for whatever reason they give, especially if they don’t like the teacher and feel that they cannot learn “properly” under that environment – and they are aiming for honors, or seeking to improve their average.

But they will not be allowed to add the same subject under those rules. It is the risk they take that they may be delayed from graduating by one term at the least and one year at the most (for the subjects offered annually) if they drop the subject because they just don’t like the teacher.

The college secretary didn’t need to put up the entire weekly schedule. In fact, a couple of terms ago, these were just posted only 24 hours ahead of schedule, where the classes for the first day of the term were posted the week before. That way, the students could only see the teachers for their subjects that day, but not for the succeeding days, and therefore could not drop subjects before they even met in class.

Besides, especially nowadays with teachers leaving for better pastures abroad like the families of the students, the teaching assignments are still not finalized during the first – even second - week of the term.

Session 1299 doesn’t want to take subjects taught by disliked teachers. Class dismissed.