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

I will be losing my first year (freshman) subjects for the first term - Introduction to Robotics and Mathematical Methods One-Two (including trigonometric applications) - because they will be passed on to our first electronics and communication engineering board passer and graduate, who will start teaching next term.

That is, after he delivers the valedictory address on Saturday, despite not even being a cum laude. I don't know if it's his fellow graduates who chose him or the administrators, or both.

I hope it's a combined decision of all of them, to keep out the complaints from last year about the cum laude who was chosen to deliver the speech while the valedictorian was left with the opening prayer, although this year the (transferee) valedictorian this year really does have an excuse not being able to deliver the speech being in Spain.

Her parents are going to attend though, and may even go up on stage to receive her diploma when her name is called during the ceremonies.

I also hope the other cum laudes don't complain (or were part of the decision making) about who will give the address.

There is another graduate (who didn't pass the board) who promised to teach, but may now have changed plans to take his master's degree first in another campus around 50 km away before teaching.

And I don't know how serious the "rule" was that graduates will not be allowed to teach first until they are board passers.

That seems to be counterproductive to our own graduates who have the willingness to teach, forcing them to a single career path especially since it only applies to one course that has a board exam.

Another graduate of ours, in communication arts this time, by the way, is also working here, but not as a faculty or even in marketing, but as part of the sports development office.

Session 2129 is not asking for the honor, just requested. Class dismissed.