Keeping my fingers crossed...

I went to the University of Cebu College of Law office this afternoon to check on the status of my enrollment. I had already plotted last Monday my schedule for the second semester for this school year 2009-2010, but the office have not yet approved my enrollment because some of the grades were not yet available.

Only the grades in four (out of seven) courses that I've taken last semester were already available by today. My grades for the four are the following:

• Persons and Family Relations (Civil Law I; under Atty. Steve Y. Dicdican) - 1.0 (x 4 units)
• Environmental Law (under Atty. Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio) - 1.9 (x 2 units)
• Legal Ethics/Legal Profession/Legal Philosophy (under Asst. Dean Atty. Paulino A. Yabao) - 2.2 (x 3 units)
• Constitutional Law I (under Atty. Jess Anthony N. Garcia) - 1.6 (x 3 units)
  

I'm keeping my fingers crossed - hopefully I can maintain the scholarship.

Last semester I paid only the ID fee, insurance and UCLASS (student organization) fee - the college did not ask me to pay for tuition and miscellaneous fees because I graduated magna cum laude from my undergraduate course (Bachelor of Secondary Education) from the University of San Carlos. I even had free books.

I was thinking that I might have to shell out almost 19,000 pesos this semester (where will I get the money?) for the tuition if I don't get the 1.7 cut-off grade. (I might be able to chip off almost 2,000 from the 19,000 by paying once and on time to avail of the 10% discount, but still 17,000 is a big amount of money. I'd rather buy a second-hand motorcycle or use that money for downpayment for a new one.)

The only three grades not yet in the system by the time I visited the office were for the following:

• Alternative Dispute Resolution (2 units)
• Statutory Construction (2 units)
• Criminal Law I (3 units)

ADR and StatCon were both under Atty. Roque E. Paloma, Jr. while Crim was under Atty. Celso V. Espinosa.

My biggest worry among these three courses is Criminal Law I. I might not even pass the course, or get less than 2.5 (the rule is simple: average of at least 1.7, and no grade below 2.5). Assuming Atty. Espinosa will look upon my final exams with kindness (honest Sir, I really don't get the Indeterminate Sentence Law), I might get at least a 2.5.

And even then, I still have to pray that my grades in both ADR and StatCon would be OK. OK would mean that one would be at least a 1.3 while the other would be a 1.2. If all these three conditions are met, I will get my 1.7 average.

(P.S. Really, I don't get the ISLaw yet. For my consolation, even the members of the Supreme Court sometimes debate over the proper application of its provisions, e.g. People vs. Temporada)