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.

It happened again. Yesterday there was another new student who needed to get his transcript from a previous school assessed for creditable (credible?) subjects then have someone decide for him what subjects he would be able to take for this term.

But this time the registrar's office personnel weren't even trying. They just sent the student up here without any accompaniment, or without even checking if the director was here to be able to do his work. What if the student had found the faculty room empty?

But it wasn't. I was here, so it was my obligation to have to look for the director so as not to keep the student waiting (good thing he wasn't with his parents or they would have been demanding) even though I had no idea where he had gone to.

Good thing it didn't boil down to them asking me again to do the job, because it was difficult enough once with a previous school that gave very detailed descriptions of their courses.

On a side note, sometimes those course descriptions can go so far that it goes beyond what the basic equivalent in our school is supposed to be, and I can't make that decision either.

Good thing also that that student (the one I was talking about in the previous entry) didn't have thirty units yet or there would have been complaints about why this or that subject wasn't credited).

Again, this goes back to the registrar's office that should have an official form as to exactly what subjects are credited, filled out either by them, by the dean or the director so that succeeding academic advisers wouldn't be in the dark. I think, after all, that the first step to having a less confusing enrollment procedure is to document everything.

To go back to my original topic, this new student was from another school that did not have those detailed, so I wasn't going to touch that with a ten foot pole even if asked.

The registrar's office really should have a copy of the schedule of the directors when they would be free in the first three weeks of classes for these cases, which are not that rare.

Then it's the director's obligation to be there at the times specified, so that if there are these last-minute transferees, they could be told to just return on the date specified which is exactly when the director is free to discuss their cases. The registrar's office should not cater to these after-start-of-term enrollees like they're royalty who should be accorded every courtesy even though they didn't follow the schedules.

@@ To address the comment from yesterday: yes, there is a possibility that I use too many apostrophes and double quotes in my writing, which due to a decision in the formatting, comes out as garbage characters (maybe Latin) in the final text. I will make an extra effort to see to it that the copy and paste is ultimately readable before closing it off.

Session 2677 not like doing the job of the boss. Class dismissed.