CAPSUNIAN ECHO

 SECOND SEM ENROLLMENT MARKS FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES PREP

by Blossom Pearl O. Villorente

According to Top Hat, student enrollment is a process of signing up for school, specific classes, or programs.

After completing the requirements and other processes, applicants will be admitted to a particular school. Indeed, it necessitates thorough preparation. As the second semester approaches, clearing away your backlogs, or INCs, or what we used to call incomplete, and a number of conditions must be met by the students. Like clockwork, students fill out paperwork and wait in a long line at the registrar as each department opens admission for the second semester, the beginning of the much-anticipated face-to-face classes.

         "During the enrollment process, it is just like a roller coaster experience. You have to undergo a lot of procedures and follow a step-by-step process. However, I was able to cope with those processes and just enjoy the flow because this would perhaps be the last time to experience enrolling as a college student," James, a 4th-year college student, said.

            As an institution that encourages orderliness and still abides by the COVID-19 rules for faculty, staff, and students' safety, different schedules were given to various departments in order to control the crowds. Moreover, the process of making plans to attend an institution and the number of students in that institution were given importance as signs that students would finally return to the campus as the school reopened for face-to-face classes.

           "During the enrollment process of the second semester, I felt tired and accomplished at the same time. Tired because of the long queue at the registrar and the long walks from the department to the administrative building and vice versa for the signing of clearances. At the end of the day, I felt accomplished for the first time in my college life. I got to enroll myself face-to-face," Tin, a 3rd-year college student, commented.

            Indeed, applying to college can be exciting, but requires a lot of dedication toward our academic interests. Supported by this statement is the concluding answer of Mr. Villasis, who says that we must keep in mind that such experiences during the enrollment process are like our lives – you have to take the stairs because there’s no elevator to success.