A Research Paper
Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirements in
Socio-Anthropology
By
Carlos Diego A. Rozul
1PSY4
September 2012
PART 1
The Problem and its Background
Background of the Study In the society of university, students form their own interpersonal relations with their fellow students. They discuss commonalities and bond until they form a sense of trust in each other. Every year, a collection of selected students attend their classes in batches called blocks. The students in the block come to a class with the same people. This permits them to socialize and create a network of connections. The block takes the same classes, same quizzes, and same curriculum. The students adjust to each other’s personalities, their new environment, and new disciplinary measures, therefore making the bonds. These students are given a full load of subjects that a student in the specific year and semester should have. These students are called regular students. Every student in the block aims to pass every class, and some may even aim to pass with high marks, but not every student in the block can achieve this goal. Failure in a subject or more require/s the student/s to repeat the course either in the summer or the following year. These students are called irregular students, but not all irregular students became irregular students because they failed a subject or more. Some students become irregular because they are shifters from another college, course or university and their units are credited by the college, course or university they transferred from. Some students become irregular by dropping subjects which they will have to take again sometime, and many other reasons.
Irregular students don’t always have classes with their block, they are to take classes or retake the class with a different batch, a different block. This alters the whole relationship,