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.

There is a conflict right now between the vice dean and the irregular engineering fourth year students, regarding their subjects for next term.

The irregulars have made their plan of study for the next five terms on the hope that they will be able to graduate at the same time as the regular students. But to do so would mean putting all of the school of engineering's teaching resources at their disposal, and none for the irregular students of the lower batch.

There is a certain inevitable truth that their batch would have accept.

In other news, last night I received the news that one of the fifth year students in the Business Administration program is pregnant.

Two terms ago she only had one subject left. The problem was that her teacher at the time said at the end of the term verbally that she and a classmate of hers were already passing.

In the middle of that term, he backed out of his statement, when it was already too late for the two students to request for a special class so they could join in the graduation at the end of that term.

The problem with this situation is that before that point, this teacher was very lax with his students in terms of requirements.

That students who could verbally run circles around the teacher, making them seem very impressive in terms of what they know, would be given passing marks in his previous subjects.

It was only when two batches of borderline slackers had been under his auspices that he became cynical enough not to fall for the students' vocal charms anymore, starting to demand more concrete results.

I believe it was unfair for him to start treating the irregular fifth years that way after having coddled them for so long.

And in this case, I also believe that if he had passed this student, she would not have had to take a part time job to while away the time during the three days in the week that she did not have classes, and she would not have gotten into the mess she was in.

Session 1757 was wrong to rely on the continued gullibility of some teachers. Class dismissed.