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Maybe the Student Affairs calendar has to be stepped up. Today is the deadline of the office of Information and Special Projects for the different offices to pass their calendars of activity for next school year.

For the Office of Student Affairs, this means more or less passing the same thing that we did last year, all the annual projects.

This is because at this time, we have just the election of new officers, so there are no plans for new projects yet.

The General Plan of Action will be done in May, after the leadership camp. So by then, since the rest of the calendar of the institution will have been finished, we are just working around arranging the schedule of the college students with avoiding conflicts of reservation of venue with the other departments.

Would it help if the election was held earlier, as in at the start of the third term? Would it help the old officers with their last projects for the school year knowing a full three months from their last day that their replacements are there?

Will it make them strive more to perform with the next generation there to judge them by their mistakes?

This is something that should be explored for next school year. Make it into an experiment or discuss all the merits and – is its demerits?

@@ Students need adherence to a strict schedule, not just in their academics, but also in other things in school.

This applies to following the rules and deadlines set by the administration, but also what is apparently only believed to be the requests of the Office of Student Affairs for submission of papers.

Yes students nowadays are like vultures or hyenas that will swoop in once they see a weak spot.

If they think they could get away with doing all the work at the last minute, that is what they will do, and they will come to expect it in the succeeding activities, or to be more precise, the FAILING succeeding activities.

What they don’t realize is that kind of attitude of procrastination, if not checked early during their learning years, gets translated to their work habits, where the stakes are higher, and instead of getting a low grade they are out of a job, where their reputation with one company is already tarnished.

And students nowadays resist being taught these lessons, instead trying to rely on their charisma or roundabout reasoning skills.

They can only depend upon this for so long before they meet someone in a higher position who got there using the same skills, then who will be the one who will lose in their objective, the more experienced talker?

Besides, even if they are not talkers themselves, sooner or later they will come across people in places of authority who are not swayed by fast rhetoric but by planning ahead and showing their preparations.

Then they will realize that that was a skill they could have learned early on and used to show their multi-faceted abilities, rather than continuing to believe they can get by with their fast tongue, and getting rated poorly on written and research tasks, things they could have learned in school instead of cajoling the teacher.