This semester, I will be facing 8 subjects because I want to graduate by midyear this AY. The 24 units title is not a shout out to all who are still underload with the 3rd day coming up. This is what my head puked out while I was looking at 6 major subjects, 1 minor and 1 MST. The composition of the 24 units is tilted towards the majors side. Sure, as a super senior student, majors should be the only subjects left in the list. But no. I still need a bunch of GEs and the much coveted PI100. Soon, I will be one of those students who got rejected this past enrollment and are still hoping for slots. Speaking of slots, one student posted pictures of the students bombarding classes for slots. The said she did not understand why this is happening. Along with the slot problem are other issues that I know less about for I do not have any experience with that matter. I would not take it against her if she does not understand, but before writing that post down, it would have helped if she took some time to observe the things that run the enrollment process.
“..there is no market for slightly used brains.” (Benipayo 2015)
To start, let’s get a quick glimpse of what is happening. Students do not have enough units to enroll. MST and SSP subjects are up to the brim when it comes to students. That’s it in a nutshell. Now. Let us look at the other scenarios connected. First is the number of students. I don’t know the exact number of students currently eligible to enroll. Maybe the UPCAT got easier, students got smarter, or a lot of students are overstaying. Nonetheless, the population is rising. Higher population, higher demand. Next the Professors. For economic reasons, most professors quit and leave their department shorthanded. Now let us merge these with the current state of UP. The College of Engineering and College of Science dispersed their departments and institutions to new buildings, responding to the need of more space for labs, equipment and classrooms. But the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy has not yet expanded even if every student in the campus will spend at least 2 years in their premises. Recent work has been done in the pavilions, but they are still underused. This lack of classroom problem is tying the hands of the departments to offer more subjects. For example, the Department of Geography has 5 classrooms and 1 lab. The rooms will be filled first with higher geog subjects to prioritize the majors. Then the open periods will be filled with Geog 1, an SSP subject. (Purely hypothetical) This is probably the order of things, not just for geog, but for other departments. The departments even max out on their professors, some handling 3 sections of GE courses just to try to supply the needed slots. It is not their fault The result is a limited number of classes with limited number of seats. Even though students are willing to sit anywhere, that scenario would be degrading for the professor, not the student (Prim 2015) for the student deserves better and the Professor could not give it on that kind of environment.
And yes you have guessed it Classrooms. Elementary school has this problem, High schools will have a lot more to deal with due to the K-12 program, Now UP is facing it as well. More classrooms, more seats, more slots, less problem. The next topic in line will be the funds for the new rooms. That would be another big topic that would merit a longer post. As for now, a possible solution has been presented. If it you deem it unacceptable, let this be an explanation of the situation that is currently smothering the campus. If it’s still not acceptable for you, let this be a spark for your brain to think of a better explanation and solution to this problem.
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