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

There really is a very fine line between having too much red tape and having almost no procedure to be on the brink of chaos itself.

It's too much if people have to read everything posted on the door of the office before going in and talking to the receptionist, only to get an exasperated look if you ask something she'll just answer in a weary voice it's posted outside.

It's also too much if people do not see the consequences of not following procedure (such as the deadline of non-penalty enrollment) so that they take their sweet time coming back from their vacation.

What's five hundred pesos late fee anyway compared to the hundred times that they pay in total? Instead the effect of enrolling late should be more drastic, such as being closed out of even regular block sections with no consideration. The early bird and all that.

There has to be a compromise between the two, such as only providing enrollment for all of the tenth week of the term, and only allowing assessment for those who were able to perform that.

Then, for late enrollment, there can only be two days given, where, of course everyone will show up and there will be long lines, which will frustrate everyone further, but hopefully makes them learn that next time, they'd have less (or no) hassle if they encoded their subjects early. For those who keyed everything tenth week, they can adjust (with regards to failures) on the course card day itself, and not have to wait for those two days before the start of the new term.

Not having a specifically laid out procedure that's given to everyone who applies for a certain offering also snowballs very badly into several delays for those who are informed of the "proper" way, too late.

They'll find out other steps in the procedure take this number of days to process, or that the deadline is done, that makes it too late when they try to rush everything on an otherwise thought of to be a leisurely passing of forms to finish.

Sorry can't be more specific than that; am actually ranting about two extreme cases that are somewhat related in their polarity.

Session 2163 is seeking that elusive and perfect middle way. Class dismissed.