Our household hosted a baby shower for two of my blockmates last week. I appreciate that my blockmates decided to hold the get-together at my place, despite having been out of UP Law for months, I’m technically not their blockmate anymore. Apparently, my blockmates haven’t been seeing each other as much as we did in our freshman year because of the recently-implemented de-blocking scheme.

Hearing from my blockmates news and stories about recent happenings in Malcolm Hall made me think that it was probably good for me that I got out of law school early. It appears as if the law school’s administration, obsessed with regaining from its rival law schools the top ranking in bar exam passing rates, has been on a stringent mission to cut off the bottom-ranking students or simply, students they feel like will not pass the bar. I, myself, failed two subjects in my freshman year and that it, I’m out, no questions asked. I heard some senior students were kicked out recently for a failing mark they got during the previous semester compounded with grades they incurred during their freshman year. Senior students apparently have lost their immunity from dismissal.