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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Here I was just talking about belated academic advising yesterday, and most of the fourth year engineering students approached me for this, two weeks late and just when they're at the robotics lab next door supposedly working in their lab class.

We went through the same rigmarole again of shifting blame as to why they couldn't get all of the subjects they need to be able to graduate as soon as possible. They would blame the lack of teachers, or the arbitrary decisions of the associate dean and the director of the school, and I would tell them it's their last minute petitioning instead of as soon as the announcement is made.

They also insisted on their own knowledge about what subjects are offered based on what they claim they heard one of those two people say, instead of the actual documentation I had right in front of me about what the dean will be opening next term.

Another problem is that they don't take into consideration the subjects that are being offered regularly for the other batches.

In fact, there are times when they intentionally avoid those subjects.

So instead of taking advantage of subjects that they know will be offered when they will certainly be offered, they instead come up with their own schedule where they want to take a certain subject one term ahead of when it's going to be offered, or one term after, which means the likelihood becomes less that the dean would want to offer it again so soon.

There is also the fact, pointed out by the associate dean, when they insist on wanting to graduate at the same time as the regular students, when it is only possible if all the teachers available will be teaching exclusively them and no other batches.

Anyway, it's not that relevant, because the associate dean already took the folders of those who finished academic advising last week, and that's what she's basing on how many sections of a certain subject to offer, or whether to arrange their schedules so that a student who went for advising can get all the subjects he listed without conflict.

Session 1929 also accepts the eventuality that whatever subjects they write down will have to be revised because of schedule conflicts. Class dismissed.