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

Again I will be writing here about a topic that I’m not sure if I’m going to talk about in the student-accessible version: of course this has to do with new bad habits that the students have acquired due to the technology of instant communication.

There have been students who have sent me text messages throughout the long break (when the school is closed) asking about when our final exam for their subject is.

First, it is the student’s responsibility to check that out before the “vacation” started.

I could have replied that I didn’t look at the schedules myself, and that I’ll just find out when I go to school on Tuesday (today) just to show them how irritating it could be for other people when someone puts off a task for the last minute.

But then I thought, why encourage them to an open dialogue when I could just not answer? Then they would be forced either to try and call me on my mobile phone or wait themselves until today, up to them if they will go to school early or not just in case.

One even clarified the query by saying that they actually checked the listing, but that our subject wasn’t there, so does that mean we don’t have an exam?

Well, admittedly, I did check my exam schedule, just in case I had to prepare questions for the first time slot of the first day (which I don’t) and our subject was there.

Maybe they only thought it wasn’t there because they were looking for the teacher’s name, when that wasn’t listed. There were listings of the subject name there, and the section, as well as the proctor (why the teacher’s name wasn’t listed is another mystery altogether that may be worthy of a different rant).

So if they were looking at just the teacher’s name, then they wouldn’t find it.

But if they actually checked their enrollment forms to find out their section, they would see it there.

Besides, all sections of one subject, even though taught by different teachers, have their final exams at the same time. This is something they should know by now, not being freshmen and this not being the first term of the school year.

Session 1581 does not want to go to the faculty room to ask the teacher questions, even though the matter they are inquiring by text message isn’t considered urgent. Class dismissed.