Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

One latest bit of news about a certain student. I think I already mentioned here that during the last days of December after course card distribution, he approached the acting dean for academic advising, even though I was in school and approached by some of the engineering students.

Yesterday the director of the school of engineering approached me asking why the student (and another irregular) were in his Strength of Materials class when he knows they failed the prerequisite Advanced Mechanics, which is what he initially asked me. I told him about the student not having been advised by me, and it is most likely that he approached the dean again with his suggestions on what he wanted to take, and didn’t show any of his grades from the previous term.

The second student was the same one I mentioned here who asked me by text if I would be in school last week, and when I said no, he said he would enroll this week instead of approaching either the dean or the director.

His advising form I did sign, but in my defense I told the director that the student never showed me his grades from last term, or ask me to drop the post-requisite subject previously listed of the course they failed (as some of the other students have reminded me, knowing the consequences).

And what are the consequences? If they already paid, which is what the first student was saying in his own defense (as if we would go: “Oh, no. You already paid. It’s too late! We can’t ask you to drop that course! Curse you! We’ll catch you next term!”). Of course he’ll be asked to drop that course now, and get a refund on his payment.

If it means his parents will show up in school, all the better, because then they’ll find out the tricks their son has been up to all this time.

If it did reach the end of the term and the students did pass the course even though technically they didn’t take the prerequisite, their grade will be invalidated and they will have to take the course again. This is one area where it pays to follow the rules, because they can’t win otherwise.

Session 1473 thinks falling through the cracks in the loopholes won’t be caught. Class dismissed.