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.

For the first time since I’ve been here, there is now a Differential Calculus class at 6-730pm, taught not by a part-time teacher which is usually the case with those subjects being given that schedule, but by a full-time faculty.

The same is true with a history subject, initially set for three hours on Saturday. The teacher, also fulltime, asked to change the time. Unfortunately, the class was given specifically for fifth year engineering students who are also taking up their on-the-job-training, so it could not be set between 8am to 5pm weekdays.

Maybe the case is also the same for the Differential Calculus class, but for the fifth year Business Administration students who not only are taking up their practicum subjects this term, but have also fallen behind on their math subjects.

According to the teacher though, the students didn’t show up for their first session early this week.

After all, is it correct to believe that the students who have shown a slacker attitude all throughout their college life to suddenly become upright and – knowing it is their last math subject – always show up for a class that happens in the evening?

When during their last take of the same subject – where they failed, of course – they had the reasoning that the teacher should pass them already because they are old students, unlike their second year classmates who had could afford to get a grade of zero and retake the subject?

Other students, knowing that they cannot afford to stay in school another term, would put in more effort so as to ensure that they will pass this time.

When their teacher last term failed them, they even went to the Executive Vice President with a written plea to intervene in their case. But thankfully the EVP declined their request, not even asking to see all the class records of the teacher concerned, which would have shown overwhelmingly anyway that the students weren’t giving their best in the class, even having one digit score tests.

In a related item, another fifth year student, computer science this time, who also has less than ten units left, but both subjects he has failed more than once and both math, has taken a leave of absence this term, concentrating on his job full time. After all, he knows he won’t be using that knowledge at work, and the company is paying him without a diploma anyway.

Session 1647 believes that they should be allowed to graduate because they are fifth year. Class dismissed.