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.

Two students have gone for academic advising today, who were not even supposed to be under me.

One of them is an engineering sophomore – or transferee, I didn't ask – who has to take up mathematical methods one, trigonometric methods one and introduction to computer programming next term. Now, according to him, the acting dean when he consulted with her yesterday said that he should not take those three subjects at the same time, so the last one was taken out of his list.

Then, also from his account, the registrar's office said that he should not take the remaining two subjects at the same time, so one of them was again removed.

He was also somehow advised to take two physical education subjects at the same time, which, even though it is technically possible (there are no rules against it) I have never seen or implemented on any student's schedule before today.

But the thing is that engineering freshmen are supposed to be allowed to take those three subjects at the same time; it's in their flowchart which is attached with the advising folder.

Was there a special requirement (his grade point average perhaps?) that would prevent this student from taking those subjects simultaneously, even though as an incoming sophomore, that would mean he would be further delayed with his courses?

In the end I just allowed him to take whatever subjects and sections were not in conflict, and he ended up with sixteen units. I thought that would be acceptable by the registrar's office, but the student returned one more time because the enrollment personnel asked for the specific sections he was supposed to enlist in.

I just told the student to log on to his account and copy the sections from there.

The other student who showed up, a business major, was asking for the general science requirement mechanics lab section to be opened, which he said the acting dean forgot to sign his request for yesterday. In my note, which I said the registrar's office may or may not honor (but he was willing to take that risk) I said for them to open it for him if it was possible, but no assurances.

Besides, I don't want a repeat of last term where there are twenty five students enrolled in each lab section. If that happens, another section has to be made for them, which eventually the dean has to approve of again anyway.

Session 1607 can't see the disadvantage of too many cook-enrollment officers. Class dismissed.