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.

I was recently the victim of the travesty that the students (and some faculty) have been complaining about in the library.

My book was due on August 27, borrowed for a month before it was announced as a holiday.

But we the college faculty were actually here last Monday to go to our workshop on student development. But the library was closed.

Our workshop ran until Tuesday afternoon, when we got back to the campus at past 5pm.

I had already anticipated this, so I had asked some people who I knew were going to be in the campus on Tuesday to return the book for me.

Unfortunately, the person I sent the text message to did not receive it, although they did receive the other messages I sent that day.

So on Wednesday morning I knew I had to pay for overdue on the book.

I still had to pay for two days' worth of fine, even though the mechanism wasn't there to be able to return the book on Monday.

I'm wondering if the book had been returned yesterday, there still would have been a one day fine for me to pay on it.

But personally, I already have a good relationship with the librarian, so I don't want to jeopardize it by complaining about her system.

I'm sure that other people will bring it to her attention and resolve the issue.

@@ About our seminar last Monday to Tuesday, it was not any different from any other meeting we have had before. There were some issues that only a few people were discussing at length, and everyone else had nothing more to say on the subject.

In other words, it was a waste of most people's time. This is one of those occasions when I believe it would have been better to just have the discussion online, asking for a conforme on the others to have read it, and have proper documentation about the points and counter points raised on the issue.

Then for those people who did not read the matter before it was discussed, they then forfeit the right to complain about it when the RESOLVED matter is placed before the group in a short and more sensible meeting. This has also happened several times.

Someone was not there for a previous part of the discussion, so when the matter was summarized for the next part, that they did attend, then they took up more time with their concern.

Session 1787 doesn't know how to maximize the teachers' time. Class dismissed.