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.

It's just the first few hours of the opening of the school offices for the new year (and the new term) and already there's a host of problems that the students want me to remedy for them even though they need either the dean or a specific other type of teacher to solve for them, which means they have to come back another day.

First off is the bizarre occurence of having a newly opened section for the sophomore engineering irregulars, only to find out that there are less than ten available enrollment slots according to the registrar's logs, when there were at least ten of the students who petitioned for the class to be opened in the first place.

It was easy enough to write a short letter in the folder of each student approaching me asking the registrar's personnel to please accommodate the students in their lists no matter what the numbers said, which they could obviously overwrite anytime.

There were some sophomore students who had to drop certain subjects they first listed down (although not electronically enlisted) because those sections were closed. Of course this means either the classes were padded or that they were filled with freshmen, who, I told the students, may drop in the first week of classes because of failed prerequisites or preferences.

If the teacher is here (which in the case of some science requirement lab classes that were also closed out, is me) then they could get a signature from the teacher allowing them to still join the class, basically saying that the teacher is accepting the extra work beyond the school limited numbers.

There were at least two students who, despite having waited for newly petitioned engineering irregular subjects to be opened, still had less than twelve units enrolled in. I just half-joked with them that I expect them to be in the dean's list this term.

There also seems to be a shortage of at least two classrooms for one and a half hours two days a week in the secretary's schedule. Instead of giving the college two new classrooms for this though, I bet the Executive Vice President just juggles the schedules around.

Session 1461 was closed out in sections, not accepted by the teacher, and is less than twelve units this term. Class dismissed.