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.

Academic advising week is bringing out the stupid in everybody, or that they are still of the mindset that the academic advisers will solve all their problems for them.

Part of the problem of course, is that despite years of prodding, the software being used is still as buggy as ever. Every term the transferees have to be told that they cannot take a certain subject even though it is next in line in their flowchart just because of the ID number it is assigned to.

Somehow that hasn't been incorporated in the system. So every term students are coming to me about not being able to enroll in the subject they want because it is closed.

And whenever I answer them, I always preface it with "Just like last term, this is what you do."

Students are also getting so used to ambushing the adviser everywhere for their wants, even though a specific schedule has been set for them. If they can't make it on that day, it's always an excuse that they weren't told about it, when as students it's really their responsibility to find out these things.

Although technically, the secretary didn't factor into her setting the dates and the times about some of the graduating students with only one term left what would be a more convenient time for them to be advised what to take for next year.

It's just funny because their tone of voice is that they believe I will be able to solve all of their problems, when the fact is that I'm just as helpless as they are about it.

At the same time, it's really wearing on my patience, particularly when it seems my discussions with the head of the election commission still isn't over, with the new president approaching him about appointments even after going to me, my reasoning of which is detailed in today's student accessible version.

I pull out all the stops already with my first answer to him, and he still won't take no for an answer, telling me all the counter arguments the others are telling him.

Of course maybe he wants to be the one to be able to tell them the good news that he was able to convince the coordinator of student affairs, but it's not going to happen. I've thought out these decisions longer than he has.

Session 2601 is just counting the days until the end of the school year. Class dismissed.