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

Last time I was talking about moving the schedule of my Electromagnetic Theory class to accommodate the lack of available classrooms during the original assigned time. Sometime in the middle of last week, there was an junior irregular engineering student who approached me asking if it was possible to change the schedule again, because it was conflict with another major subject he was planning on taking.

The college really needs to get a formal procedure on this (after also ensuring that this kind of conflict becomes almost non-existent in the first place, by having good software in place of pre-enrollment) so that students stop getting the idea that being just one person with a request is enough for them to turn the lives of several other people (their classmates, their teacher, the dean and the registrar’s personnel) on its side. I will, of course, propose this in the next meeting.

One of the rules must be that students can only request for a change of schedule if the subject was one they originally enlisted during the academic advising period on the tenth week of classes, and not something they just decide to take up during adjustment because they failed their first choice or it is in conflict and they are looking for an alternative.

Second, no one student could request for such. The document must have the signatures of majority of their classmates. That way they don’t expect that the teacher will just move the subject’s day and time and expect the teacher to announce it as beholden fact to the rest of the class.

If they are in the minority and they end up being under-loaded for the term because of the denial, then that is something they will have to live with.

They have to be able to see the consequences of what they are suggesting to the other people concerned, something that will crop up in situations in their job after graduation, and that they have to know how to handle correctly.

I will also suggest having a form for petitioning a subject, with spaces for the names, signatures and ID numbers of the students concerned.

Session 1475 wants the school to revolve around only him. Class dismissed.