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

Something that happened last week that got buried under everything else that I've reported has to do again with the administrators finding out that in some subjects, the count of students in the lecture and lab classes are not the same - and doing something about it.

This was one of those students who had a grade point average of less than 1.1 for the past term, and was therefore called to the Dean's office to be warned about what this could mean for their future in the college.

The Dean noticed the student was enrolled in one lab class but not in the lecture class, which is now not allowed, so he required that the student enroll in the lecture class. Since the associate dean was not in campus at the time, I was the one the secretary asked about it on the phone, and my standard answer was it being like a certain student's case, when both the lecture and the lab subjects should have been dropped due to a conflict in schedule to one of them, but the student only dropped one.

A few minutes later the student himself went to our faculty room about the matter, and I realized my mistake that in this case it is considered a professional elective that a student taking up Electronics and Communications Engineering can take by itself, but that Computer Engineering majors have to take with the lecture.

So that's what I told the student to tell the secretary to tell the Dean so that the student would not have to enroll in an additional subject.

Not long after that, the secretary calls me again, pleading with me to clarify the situation to the dean, which she could not do.

So I had to answer to the dean, when he asked why the flowchart was like that, that it was the original work of the first director of the school of engineering who is no longer employed with us.

He also said he wanted the student to take the subject as part of a preemptive move to shift his to Computer Engineering, which might be easier, but which the student does not agree to.

So I left it with the secretary to contact the current director of the school, that if the additional subject could be credited as another of the professional electives (which was also what the dean was hoping, then the student can enroll it, otherwise, he is not required to. And the matter was finally out of my hands.

Session 1829 is a mid-level employee stuck between lack of communication between the higher ups. Class dismissed.