Regesta Ergo Sum

Here's a funny story.

My friend sent me a message telling me a professor was looking for me which struck me as odd since I wasn't enrolled in his subject. I felt a sinking feeling in the pit of stomach. I looked at my midterm assessment slip and sure enough, I was enrolled in the wrong subject. Worse, I wasn't enrolled in one of the classes I was taking at all. I was supposed to be enrolled in a four unit subject but got a two unit one instead; one I had already taken.

It turns out the subject number I enrolled was wrong. An honest mistake but now, the penance. A little of the old fashioned walk of penitence; bureaucratic legwork and petition letter shuffling. Wrote a letter to the Registrar only to be told I had to make it out to the Vice President of Academics and then they would endorse it. It's midterms so I guess I need the approval of the higher ups. Fair enough, I've had worse rounds with this game.

This reminds me of the time I had to take the final exams of a certain class during my undergrad years but discovered on the week of the exams that I hadn't enrolled at all. It was miraculously sorted out but it must be mentioned that the Vice-President of the College of Arts and Sciences used to be the Dean of my department. That probably had something to do with it. Connections man, that's the society we live in. That class. by the way, was Philosophy.Do I really exist? Whatever.

The more important question is: Am I enrolled in this damned class?

Scandal

Apparently, there was a scandal involving a student in the same college I study at. It involves a sex video which shows, as my good friend was all too eager to show me, a woman clearly dressed in the school's uniform doing things most orally unhygienic.

 

I don't know why the man who took the video of himself getting his happy ending would release it on the internet but I bet it's no good one. Needless to say, the woman took a break from school. She was allegedly a bright one; a dean's lister or something. Go figure.

 

As a result, the school posted that undergraduates no longer had to wear the uniform until further notice. It seems students were being heckled for wearing the school uniform by people who had nothing better to do than to watch pornography. I guess if you don't like the uniform policy some good...came out of it for you as well.

 

See, this is why I think uniform policies are stupid. If there were no school uniforms, none of this wouldn't have happened. She would have just played on in normal clothes and nobody would give even a fourth of a rat's ass.

 

Whatever.

Edit: Correction; the woman wasn't expelled or suspended but continued schooling in secret.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

I finally passed a written output due for today.

You know, teachers ask for a lot of final outputs in the last week. It's either a thesis, research proposal or project. But what really happens to these outputs after students pass them? Frankly, after I pass an output I never hear about it again. It makes zero impact. Its like passing it into a black hole. Nobody knows what happens to them or even if the whole exercise matters. What do the teachers need them for? Whatever it is, I am certain its something sinister, Manhattan Project type shit.