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.

This edition is just two days behind the student accessible one in reaching another landmark.

These past two days there have been freshmen students taking up engineering who went to me for advising, because they failed both their introductory computer programming course and their trigonometric applications.

Good thing both of these are still offered for the second term, so it was easy to change their enrollment forms.

But, as we teachers have been saying before, if you don't think you can handle the math or the logic involved in the course you initially chose, you may have to shift.

There were also some third year students who told me about some conflicts they have in some of the regular subjects that their batch mates with no failures, and the ones that they had petitioned (or that the associate dean predicted they would petition).

Since these are subjects that I wrote out for them during their academic advising on the tenth week of classes, this means that they have the right to request for a change of schedule.

It's just that they have to get all of their classmates who also have conflicts to sign.

That also means that most likely the schedule and room assignments that was laid out by the associate dean and the college secretary will have to be changed by next week.

What's strange is that there are little errors in the scheduling that are more numerous now than they were last term. I'm talking about classes that are not given the right amount of time, if they are not the regular 1.5 hours twice a week set.

Sometimes lab classes are only given half of the required three hour session per week.

I've also noticed that there are some two-unit courses for which there is a hesitation between meeting once a week for two hours or twice a week for an hour each.

As I was saying yesterday, this could all be avoided if a computer program is used to be able to take out all the student, teacher and room conflicts, maybe even maximize the use of a room so that the use of power for air conditioners and lights are also continuous, and certain rooms are only used for certain consecutive hours a day.

Session 1797 doesn't look like they are optimal thinking computer science graduates from the way they work. Class dismissed.