Life goes on, co-students

Every time Manila experiences heavy rains such as this, every student looks forward to one thing - suspension of classes.  No matter what reason, whether students just feel lazy to go to school because of the "cuddle" or "bed" weather, or they just need more time to accomplish all of their requirements, for whatever reason, every student looks forward to class suspension.

What comes to my mind, and probably to the minds of other Ateneans, is how adherent Ateneo to government announcements on suspension.  It has been an issue whether the local government has control over Ateneo regarding this matter or not. (You may want to read the clarification of Sanggu regarding the suspension protocol of LS here.)

I remember speaking to the LSVP, who was my professor in Statistics and is currently in sabbatical leave, with regard to how he decides on suspending classes.  As a person of Mathematics and Computer Science, he looks on the profile of the student body, where do students mostly reside and where the students usually pass to go from their location to the university, and compares it to the reports and projections of PAGASA and other entities.  If a large percentage of flooded areas involve the places where most students reside, that's when he decides on suspending the classes for the next day.

The procedure makes sense.  Looking at the numbers, if most of the locations where students reside already experience heavy rains and floods, there is really a need to cancel the classes.  But the rarity of suspensions being made by the university fills doubt among students.  We see floods go high on televisions. We hear evacuations ongoing through our social networking sites.  Yet, our dear university doesn't announce any suspension.

In my opinion, what we only see is just a portion of what the university sees.  Do we have the profile of student body? Do we have specific statistics of which of those heavily-flooded places have our co-students? I doubt we know such things to boldly claim that a lot of students are stuck in those flooded places.  Our definition of "a lot" is highly subjective and we don't hold any support to our claims.

In my opinion, CHED knows this idea that the only thing we know is the status of the location where we are. With this, CHED gives us the capability to decide among ourselves if we can make it to school or not, during these times through the memorandum being circulated online.  How professors adhere to this memorandum is a different story.

Life goes on, I say.  Instead of raging too much in our social networking sites, I think we should continue to do our responsibilities as students.  Being jealous with other universities is not inevitable but they have a different group of students, and unfortunately, their student profile is not the same as ours.

Maybe instead of writing this post, I should go back attending to my requirements. *sigh*

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