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January
03: The Small Hitches in the Electronic Enrollment System Pile Up
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05: Students Making Wrong Decisions in School
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08: If She's My Friend, I Have to be Her Friend Too
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09: These Students Will Be Like Flies Banging Against A Window When They Start to Work
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10: Pampered in School, Pariah in the Work Force
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11: Teachers Adjusting For Students Instead of the Other Way Around
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12: Let's Just Blame Neglect on Everyone's Part, Including the Teachers, Especially the Parents
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13: When the Student-Teacher Line is Crossed
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15: Red Tape Springs From Indiscriminate Informal Requests
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16: Concerned About Student Survival in the Real World
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17: Now Students Really Feel They Should Have Passed the Prerequisites
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18: "Wow, The School May Let Me Take My Thesis on My First Term" - NOT!
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19: Starting with Those Lined Notepads Then Removing the Lines Later
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20: The Tenuous Grounds of Class Schedules In the First Two Weeks of the Term
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22: Trying to Remove the Lax Atmosphere Around Three-Hour Classes
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23: If At First You Don't Succeed, Find Another Route
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24: Recurring Students
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25: First Introduced and Revisited Mathematical Concepts
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26: Teachers Extending Their Power Tripping Outside the Classroom
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27: A Teacher Has to Stay One Lesson Ahead All the Time Just In Case
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29: 1462 Days Later
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30: Preventing the Students From Repeating My Old Tricks Done In My College Days
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31: Putting Down the Geometrical Foundation for Electron Characteristics in Three Dimensions
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February
01: If I Can Do Something Like This, So Can You
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02: Overloaded Class I Hope Won't Be Happening Again In the Future
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03: Thinking Out of the Box All The Time
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05: Talking More About Making Less Work Look Like More
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06: Are We Valuing Adaptability Now Over Familiarity with Routine?
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07: Taking the Nobility Out of the Vocation
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08: Lectures That Review Concepts Covered In Previous Classes
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09: Students Grabbing Any Opportunity to Have An Easier Time
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12: The Teacher Is Wary of Apparent Attempts of Slacking Students at Work
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13: When The Students Ask for More Applications
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14: How Computers Make Repetitive Calculations and Plotting Easier
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15: Positive Habit Reinforcement or Some Stuff Like That
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16: Expanding Two Dimensional Integration Concepts to Three Dimensions
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17: Continuing the National Tradition of Half-Baked Results - or Non-Results
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19: Preventing The Students From Requesting Anything That Comes to Mind
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20: Mediocrity In Student Work Is Breeding
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21: So Much for Starting Appearances of Having Good Study Habits Now
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22: How Do You Expect Students to Follow Class Rules When They Show Up Too Late to Hear Them In the First Place?
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23: The New King Holds Court for the Subjects
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26: Candidates Have to Conform to the Commission on Elections Not the Other Way Around
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27: Going Beyond Simple Substitution in Formulas
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28: The Topics Just Get More and More Difficult From This Point On
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March
01: A Student Shedding His Bad Classroom Habits - But For How Long and Is It In All Classes?
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03: Delving A Bit Into Possible Student Psychology
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05: Three Fourths Through Their College Life And I'm Still Giving the Students a Hand Up On the Basics
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06: Thinking About What Is Right For the Students
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07: Cutting the Students Some Slackers
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08: Maximum Grades for Minimum or No Effort
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09: The Trouble with Homework is That At Home, It's Not the Student That Does the Work
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10: Should A Teacher Make Succeeding Exams Easier If Students Consistently Fail?
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12: Not Letting Students Put One Over The Teacher
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13: Post Field Trip Science Lab Session
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14: Are They Expecting A Popular Revolt or Something Not Complaining Formally?
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15: Textual Snapshots of Different Classrooms in the Week
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16: Too Many Students, Not Enough Teacher to Go Around
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17: The Earlier The Students Finish the Project, The More Time They Have Afterwards... To Finish Other Projects in Other Classes
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19: Students Who Think They're Getting Away with Something Just Because The Teacher Doesn't Call Them On It
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20: A Student Obviously Not Used to Lab Work, When Already In Third Year
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21: A Student Who May Not Survive Judging Themselves and Not Forgiving Themselves
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22: So Much For "One Educational Goal"
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23: Extracurricular Events Interrupting Regular Classes
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24: Driving Away People Who Can't Decide Till the Last Minute
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26: Who's Grading the Teachers?
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27: How The Teacher Determines Who Was Working On the Experiments
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28: Students with Unrealistic Expectations More Than Halfway Through Their Underachieving Trimester
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29: When Students Are Not Desperate Enough to Want to Graduate
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30: Working with Strangers Means A Period of Adjustment for Personalities
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31: An Advantage of One-On-One Exams: How the Teacher Reacts to the Student's Answers
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April
02: What's Easy For the Teacher is Difficult for the Student
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03: A Right and A Wrong Way to Compensate for Missed Requirements
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04: Less Fiction, More Science Please
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10: Students Who Are Lazy and Impatient Not Approaching the Teacher
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11: Better to Assume Something Exists and Prepare For It Than Believe It's Not and Be Caught Unawares
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12: Student Plays Parental Tattle Tale with Teacher
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13: The Ego of Someone Saying "I Should Be Everyone's Standard"
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14: A Student Preferring One Big Effort As Opposed to Sustained and Prolonged Ones
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16: Noticing More Loopholes in Our Exam Procedures
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17: The Further Adventures of Center of the Universe Man
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18: No Use Going Higher Up the Ladder - of Allies
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19: When One Teacher Is Not Entirely In Control of The Students' Grades
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20: Students Shouldn't Think School Is Everything
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23: What Can't Be Achieved by Sunday Logging
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24: Overwhelming Stupendousness
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25: Adjustments Made for the Preceding and Upcoming Terms
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26: Accommodating Late Enrollees
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27: Standing On Ceremony (Behind the Scenes)
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28: More Added Subjects At the Students' Request
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May
08: Shades of Gray Grades
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09: In Love with Pretty Titles
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10: Undeserving People In Positions
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11: Changing the Things They Could Not Accept
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12: Needing to Prevent Occurences Last Term from Repeating
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15: Small Changes with Potentially Large Consequences
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16: "It's Now Time to Make a Change"
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17: Unexpected Voids
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18: Unfit to Teach
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21: The Pros and Cons of a Floating System or Structure
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23: The First Day of Classes Is Just A Suggestion?
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24: Can One Make It Going Through Life Disregarding Deadlines?
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25: The Early Birds and The Worms of Student Enrollment
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26: First Lecture Account
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28: I Thought "I Know This Much Is True"
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29: Punishing Intentional Absentees
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30: Upperclassmen Getting Too Comfortable That Their Teachers Won't Fail Them For Excessive Absences?
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31: Forcing Underachievers To Put In More Effort
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June
01: Under the Classroom Table Negotiations
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04: We Reserve The Right To Not Be Present
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05: The Right People Apathetic and The Wrong People Volunteering for the Wrong Reasons
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06: Someone Who Thinks The School Isn't A Cool Place to Hang Out Anymore
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07: Minor News Day
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08: The Slow But Sure Maturing Process of Some Students
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09: Limits That the Students Set Consciously and Unintentionally
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12: First Salvo For the New School Year
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13: Work Avoidance Tactics That Don't Work On A Teacher
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14: The Need for Clarification through Forms and RTW
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15: Who Will Teach the Teachers?
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17: An Engineering Major with A Communication Arts Heart
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18: Still In the Quiet Lull of the Term's Fourth Week
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20: Students Not Doing What the Teacher Asks
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21: Distorted Ideas About Team Tasks
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22: The Teacher Grades the Students On Everything Done and Not Done
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23: Students That Don't Have A Sense of Urgency Unless the Teacher Shouts?
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25: Teachers Have to Be An Expert in Something Else
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26: Some Concepts Not Sticking to the Students' Memory
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27: Four Weeks' Planning for A Yearly Celebration
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28: A Student Who Never Looks Ahead Far Enough
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29: Reviewing the Students on the Foundation of Engineering
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30: The Programming Bugs Are in the Details
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July
02: Complex Robot Designs for Performing Simple Tasks
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03: Exam as Punishment - In the Eyes of the Student or the Teacher as Well?
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04: What's the Priority: Getting More Students or Teaching the Students Who Are Here?
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05: Students Only Physically Present for the Grade, But Mentally Checked Out
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06: Belatedly the Basic Concepts Are Emphasized
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07: Showing The Long Way to Solve Makes the Students Appreciate the Shortcut More?
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09: Dealing with Anguish Caused By Other People
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10: When Classes Are Sacrificed for Marketing Again
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11: The Higher You Get Paid, the More The Employer Expects From You
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12: The Default Mode of This Student is Slack
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13: Help From the Teacher Before But Not During An Exam
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16: Give The Students The Formulas During An Exam, But Expect More Analysis From Them
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17: Scraping the Bottom of the Trash Can
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18: Blame Also Trickles Sideways
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19: Work for the Students Literally Piling Up
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20: Volunteers Can Quit, People Assigned to A Task Cannot
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21: I Am Serving The Almighty By Helping Myself
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23: Those Who Left and Some Who Came In Temporarily
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24: A Vicious Cycle for Judging
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25: My Eye of the Needle
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26: Unplanned Problems Solving Other Unforeseen Mishaps
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27: Badly Laid Plans of Mice and Men
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28: Intolerable Unprofessionalism
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30: Parents Choosing The School For Their Kids Conditionally
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31: Another Fault of the Metro Manila Film Fest Box Office Bleeding
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August
01: The Lack of Good Safeguards Revealed
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02: Students as Victims of Material Envy
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03: Students Complaining Instead of Rising Up to the Challenge
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04: Preventing Student Inaction and Inattention
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06: Freedom Is Academic to A Point
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07: Fortune of Reversal
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08: Ignorant Teachers Can Wise Up, But Can Students Do the Same?
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09: One Way Communication
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10: If The Student Is Late, It's Best Not to Call Attention to Your Delayed Presence
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11: Teaching As A Career-Sundae Topper
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13: A Different Approach to Writing
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14: The Very Slow Speed of Sound of Students' Cries
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15: Used to Working with People Remotely and Not Face to Face
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18: Effectively Only 12 Weeks of Lectures This Term
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20: Inconsistent Lecture and Lab Subject Policies
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21: Maybe Students Don't Get Scared Enough to Change Until The Teacher Shows Anger
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22: Lack of Results Are Always Accompanied by Excuses and Pleading
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23: Administrators Who Were Never Teachers Not Understanding Certain Concepts
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24: Absolutely No Sense Of Time Management
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25: Teachers Who Need to be Taught A Lesson
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29: Gouging Students' Pockets
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30: Round and Round the Table Discussions
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31: One Flaw of the Trimestral Educational System
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September
01: Last Minute Term Hitches Again
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03: Those Who Failed and Those Who Almost Failed
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04: The Dark Ages of Student Enrollment
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05: More Enrollment Stumbling Blocks
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06: People Being Used Over Machines
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07: When to Meet and When to Uplink
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08: The Consequence to Too Many Failures
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10: Abusing Administration Laxity to Make Them Stricter?
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11: The Students Are Silent Due to Indifference?
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12: A Student Just Begging for A Vigilant Academic Adviser
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13: Still on the Shaky Ground of Conflicting Class Schedules
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14: Horse Blinders Strike Again
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15: A Strike Against Lazy People Everywhere
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17: Start on the Difficult Classroom Work Off the Bat
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18: When Students Are Too Familiar with the Teacher to Try Making Their Own Rules
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19: New and Old Behavior from Teachers and Students
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20: Teachers Affected By Students' Bad Behavior, Not Vice Versa
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21: Reservations
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22: School Is Just Something Students Think They Have to Suffer Through Before Getting to Make Their Own Decisions
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24: The College Dean's Kryptonite - Where His Powers Don't Work
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25: Third Week of the Term That Still Feels Like the First Week
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26: In The School Director's Domain, His Word Is Law
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27: A Dubious Distinction
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28: First Speed Bumps of the Term
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29: Relieved to Have Good Students Again
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October
01: The Teacher As Someone In the Background
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02: Time Again for the Monthly Droning
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03: Time Not Entirely Wasted, Thanks to Multitasking
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04: Last Minute Class Activity Improvisation
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05: Technology Making Student Submissions Easier
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06: Having A Like Minded Immediate Superior
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08: Another Example of Student Laziness
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09: The Threat of Less Slacking for the Rest of the Term
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10: Students Smell It If The Teacher Is Afraid
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11: Farewell In the Middle of the Term Without Leaving
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13: Sacrificing for the Vocation
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15: Letting The Students Learn By Themselves
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16: Different Students Don't Have the Same Strengths
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17: Restricting Access to Students In A World Where They Can Find Out A Lot of Things
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18: The Most Number of Sets I've Given In An Exam So Far
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19: Bait Set By the Teacher Against Cheaters
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22: Intentions vs. Logistics
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23: The School In Their Minds Not the Same As The One We're Working In
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24: Tidbits of Recent Classes
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25: Just Because the Net Is Fast Doesn't Mean Research Can Be Postponed to the 11th Hour & 59th Minute
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26: The Mistaken Impression of Students That Future Bosses are like Waiters
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27: Giving The Students the Fishing Rod, and Letting Them Figure On How to Fish
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30: Special Classes Take Their Toll on the Student
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31: The Slacker Influence Over the Students Continues
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November
03: Booked Saturdays and Sundays for November
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05: Meeting the Students Halfway to A Passing Grade
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06: The Temptation to Set All Homework Deadlines to Tomorrow
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07: "Unfair", the Teacher Cries Out for Once
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08: All Letters and Punctuations, Signifying Nothing
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09: A Win-Win Social Classroom Experiment
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12: High Ranking Workers Are Incompetent Because They Think They Are Not Accountable for Their Actions
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13: Making The Best Out of An Erroneous Teaching Strategy
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14: If You Don't Read This, Please Reply
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15: The Rules Making Committee Just Wrote Down The Procedure, That's It
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16: Considerations of Presented Attitude
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19: Where The Teacher's Obligation Ends
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20: Combination of Two Advanced Topics In Class
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21: Looking Forward to Next Term Already
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22: Not Deserving of the Responsibility
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23: The Dreaded Twice Every Four Months Short Meet
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26: Not All Tough Guys All The Time
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27: With Great Winter Comes Great Immaturity
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28: When Winning Becomes Nothing
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29: Cynical Response to Forced Donations
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December
01: Pulling Student Election Strings Again
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03: Religious Observations without Priests or Priestly Guidance
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04: Reality Follows Thought
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05: Waiting for Virtual Reciprocation
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06: Student Exploitation of The Loopholes in the System
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07: Somewhat Unfair Exam Practices
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10: Teachers Moonlighting As PR People for the School
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11: One Room to Adjust Them All (Students' Subjects That Is)
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12: Electronic Train Wrecks I Can't Look Away From
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13: Bald Faced Cover Up Lies of Cheating Students
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14: Students Also Should Be Careful What They Wish Of A Teacher
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15: But What If The Teacher Was Given A Tough Exam? Uh Oh
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17: For Some Students, Anything Other Than Multiple Choice Exams are "Tough"
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18: Same Old Problems with Students on The Last Day of the Term
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19: Teachers Waste Time Waiting For the Students to Appear
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20: More Rewards for Early Students Sought
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21: Big Consequences for Failing Subjects and Delaying Enrollment
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