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.

To coincide with yesterday's topic in multiply, which went back to something that happened before my trip - well, out of country trip, I mean, not the local flights, I'll talk about the recent finishers (who will "graduate" in April) and their dilemma.

They have this project subject, unlike the other courses (except for the School of Computing, who, according to the director in her freshman orientation talk, now have a thesis - probably due to the questionability of at least one their graduates) which only have the OJT that they have to defend.

The problem with this three unit enrolled course is that there is no proposal defense where a "contract" between the faculty panel and the students are ironed out. Everything is literally the dictates of the school director.

He was the one who told them what they should do, which was modify the robots used in the combat competition and intermediary robotics classes.

Recently, they were told by the director that their efforts were not enough to pass, and that they have only weeks - or at least one week before their presentation - to make it satisfactory.

If this had been settled at the start of the term, there would be no hitches.

So I'm telling the students to take their case up to the vice dean, regardless of whether they may receive flak (which is what slacker co-teacher stupidly told them they would get if they don't wait until after the graduation ceremony to complain).

But by then, there would be at least two more batches which would have fallen under the same tyranny, and maybe experience worse.

Session 2397 realizes it's just like yesterday's topic, excpet the selfishness is now on the side of the students, not the teachers. Class dismissed.