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.

@@ In the student accessible version I was talking about the first of the robot demonstrations we’re going to have for my class next week, to be held in our lab room.

Surprisingly, unlike in the previous terms, this time the students had to fill up an activity form so that the director of student affairs will sign and stamp their posters.

This is even though it is not a student organization event. Thankfully though, there are enrollees in my class who were part of the leadership training last summer, so they are familiar with the new planning procedures.

I wonder if that also means I can’t sign for any of the posters anymore as a proxy.

Another instance of the bearing down of red tape on the office of student activities is that during the batch representative elections last week, when I told the election officers that they had to get the student assembly heads to make the reservations for the venues as well as put up the posters for the gathering.

Despite this, since the elections is still considered an event that involves the Election Commission, the officers there had to come up with their own activity form.

Of course I found out about this just like with my robotics class activity form because I had to sign both.

@@ It is only now that I found out that that “I’m A Nerd” t-shirts that the second year engineering students last year had made and were wearing is to promote their being part of the academic tutorials core of the Student Council.

This is because the name of the school, the team as well as the school year were all printed at the top back of the shirt and in small letters, that I only got to see a student wearing in class today. I am all for having shirts to announce all kinds of events in the school to have a sense of belonging and attending.

I just hope that the funds for these do not all come from the organizations or committees concerned, and at the same time that they also don’t all come from the students’ pockets.

I recall last year when one of the seniors was telling me that a freshman sports team captain that he assigned was more concerned with designing her own captain’s jacket than with the team’s uniforms or even the line ups from the draft.

Let’s face it: shirt pride can be prone to abuse and misrepresentation.

Session 1667 borrowed a friend's shirt to claim to be something they're not. Class dismissed.