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

One of the things that the ever-complaining senior batch were saying about the retreat last weekend was that it should have been included in their tuition fees instead of being an additional payment asked for in the middle of the term.

In fact, if the whole thing is treated as a one unit subject that the students have to attend one weekend to pass, not only would there be no more problem with students procrastinating with paying until the last day despite all the early deadlines set (and disregarded) and with some students not showing up because they couldn't ask their parents for the additional money, or some parents not being able to provide the money in the first place.

It would also make good the threat that some students reluctant to attend could not graduate unless they do attend, because it would be reflected in their transcript of records and flowchart instead of just being a letter on the bulletin boards that some of the students do not bother to read, and therefore it does not reach all the students concerned.

The one unit non academic subject could just have a pass or fail grade, and always to be taken in the student's last year.

Maybe there could even be a numeric grade where the students have to go through some kind of interview before they are given a grade.

Speaking of grades, none of the regular senior students who are usually on the dean's list made it this term, since their practicum subject did not have a numeric grade.

So there were only three students who got second honors in their batch, and these were not the regular overachievers often listed.

There were also some regular "scholars" among the juniors and the sophomores (particularly in engineering) who did not make it this term, having grade point averages around the two point eight mark.

This they attributed to some particularly difficult subjects, and to the fact that there is only one grade for some lecture and lab subjects (and thus pulling their average down when multiplied by four units total, instead of the usually higher lab grade raising the GPA when figured separately.

Session 1381 had difficult teachers. Class dismissed.