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.

Okay, the email exchange with my friend has gotten a little too technical now with the response to my email being about the changing trends of graduate and post graduate education in the US.

So now back to our regularly scheduled program, academic "news".

For the first time in four terms, a certain student is in my class again.

And he's not all that better, in fact in some aspects he's gotten worse.

First of all, he still arrives a bit late for the class, set at 1pm.

Just like five terms ago, it seems that he has lunch off campus with his mother, and he doesn't get back on time for the start of class.

I don't know if my warning about counting late arrivals and adding three of them up for an absence will have any positive impact, but I just realized that with the rule in the student handbook that three lates is equal to one absence and six absences for classes that meet twice a week is allowable, a student has to be late nineteen times in the term, out of twenty six meetings to be given a zero grade.

In the old system, where two lates equals one absence, it only takes sixteen lates, even if the allowable absences is chalked up to 7.5 times.

Anyway, going back to the original topic, he still insists on sitting in front, although with this batch of third year engineering students, they are okay with not sitting in front, so he has no conflict there - for now. This batch doesn't seem to have any qualms about telling him his bad traits to his face.

So if ever I suddenly stop writing here for several days with no explanation, he's probably taken a shotgun to school and blown us all away.

Session 2359 has only written about the tip of this particular iceberg. Class dismissed.