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.

Some of the interesting cases that cropped up yesterday during the adjustment were as follows.

There was one student, a fourth year computer science major, who went around asking several teachers and IT office personnel to take up the special class he was asking so that he would not have to stay an extra term in the school. This was due to the fact that he failed his operating systems subject.

This was the same student that I could not pass about two or three years ago when he was given a failing grade in general science requirement mechanics lab, for not submitting any individual reports.

He said he passed them, and even printed them out "again" for me, when in fact they were only two pages of paraphrasing from the manual without any graphs of results or analysis.

Even if I had accepted his reports, which would have gotten a low grade, it would not have been enough to pass him in the subject.

I thought all this time that he had already "changed" but apparently desperate times call for desperate measures on his part.

Another incident was students just now advising who were insisting on being accommodated to the general science requirement mechanics lab classes, when there is a ceiling of twenty students per class.

The associate dean could probably just open one more section for the lab, as there is a maximum of two lab classes for each lecture class anyway.

But the point of the advising is that if they had done that early, then at that juncture the associate dean would have already known how many sections to open for them, instead of doing so at the last minute.

Then, closed sections really do mean closed for adjusting students.

Session 1957 are so used to getting their way they are incredulous when the administrators decline their requests for overload and such. Class dismissed.