Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

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

The truth can finally be told: E-frame is no longer allowed to enroll in the school of engineering.

He’s actually the one I was talking about in the post (mentioned here but primarily in the student accessible version) a couple of days ago who bypassed the “mother” who said “no” and asked the “father” who, not knowing the mother’s decision, said yes.

He arrived in school last Friday with the check for his enrollment, and he found out that the accounting office required him to talk to the director of the school of engineering.

He said he would come back on Monday. I only saw him earlier, checking if the director was there.

He gave the same excuses as usual for his failure to up his GPA: saying he didn’t focus on his subjects.

Wow, any other student in that position would have known the severity of effort needed to continue studying.

All I know is that he was taking it very easy all throughout the term, leaving his lab classes to eat in the cafeteria and taking his time returning, and that’s not the work of a student who knows his studies are hanging by a thread.

He has shown consistent behavior in not giving as much effort as the other students, and only last term, in his pleading with one of my co-teachers to pass him was he able to declare that he had perfect attendance, something he couldn’t argue to his favor in other subjects, as if that’s supposed to be enough, even with a rating in the line of forties, to pass.

So after the director talked to him, he polled us teachers about it. I, of course, said no, and not surprisingly, so did everyone else, including our recent graduate, and slacker co-teacher (who, by the way, has Mondays off this term) who has never been his teacher, but was surprised to learn that this is a fourth year student taking up second year subjects, and has failed half his enrolled courses.

At least there’s the precedent that two other such consistent low performers were asked to shift last year, by the former executive vice president.

Although since he said he really wants to be an engineer, I don’t know if he will accept a suggestion to shift to any of the other courses here, if that’s even brought up.

Session 2507 has another big thorn taken from the side this term. Class dismissed.