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.

Just some additional observations on what I have talked about in the student section today.

First, about the students who enrolled late, most of them did not have the fear anymore of being closed out in their classes because they knew that most of their classes are petitioned anyway, and from the nature of the letter that they have to sign to be given to the dean, they cannot get closed out on those subjects because they have already committed that they will enroll in them, and the acting dean won’t open them unless the administration is assured of not losing money on opening those sections. Very few of them have to drop any of these subjects anyway, because they are conflict.

At least one student, a Singaporean, approached me about changing his subjects so that he can take up Basic Filipino for Foreigners, the first time it is offered, as far as I know, so he has to prioritize that. No telling when that will be offered again, and how regular it will be.

There was one irregular junior engineering student who, because he failed the pre-requisite to some of the subjects they petitioned, cannot take them.

He had a letter (co-signed by the student’s father) stating since he would only be enrolling in six units, if he could take some of the post-requisites of the subject he failed, which he is retaking. I had to tell the director, who asked me for advice on the case, to decline, because it would open the floodgates towards all the irregulars as soon as they heard about it, just taking whatever subject is most convenient for them, regardless of the pre-requisites.

Besides, we already had a precedent before where a student only took up nine units, and the school (represented by me, the academic adviser) did not budge, even when the parents showed up to find out the real deal. When the present student went to me for final advising afterwards, (not knowing I had talked to the director earlier) he had 15 units anyway, so it was just a ruse after all.

More crazy suggestions from the students next time.

Session 1467 thinks of bending the rules all the time. Class dismissed.