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

Two days ago I was talking about the latest escapades of consistent slacker and Business Administration student JJ, who thinks he can get by on all of his subjects on just talk.

But yesterday's “runaway” post got in the way. That's one of the things that I have to watch out for since I vowed never to overextend any of my posts to prevent turning off readers from “tuning” in regularly, since I myself have to limit the time I spend looking up other people's words otherwise I would be on-line all day and not get any other work done. I guess that's the influence of the net on my attention span.

So sometimes I will get something emotionally of higher priority out of the way before I continue with a topic that I said in a previous post I will continue.

And enough of that rationalization. To continue with my story, the head of the registrar's office explained to the student why his request that teachers be allowed to drop those enrolled in their classes. If there is ever a teacher who – hopefully not all the time – will hold something against a student, he or she can just tell the registrar's office that the student is automatically dropped.

Unless, that is, the student processes the request himself (which is what JJ does not want to do).

He was already overstepping his “closeness” with his former guidance counselor insisting on what he wants so that with just one word all of his failures in the transcript can be changed to “DROPPED”, but I guess she had enough of him.

Besides, he doesn't think of the consequence of what company would hire someone who dropped several subjects in his college years: would that potential employee not be expected to suddenly not show up in the middle of an important project that has become too challenging? Would the employer be left in the air?

Word of the exchange was when JJ found out that the head of the registrar's would not change her mind, that he cried in front of her, but that it was to no effect.

It's really stupendous (a word I will start to use right now for something that I believe to be amazing but stupid at the same time, just because it shares the first four letters) the tactics lazy people will go through to try and convince people to do what they want and give them credit for something they don't deserve, when everything would not have to get to that point if they had just done the work well in the first place, and consistently throughout the term at that.

Maybe its the instantaneous technology that's to blame again.

Session 1589 wants to pass all subjects right now. Class dismissed.