Missing the signs

I've probably been approached by the third time this past week by a student who apparently was not aware of the new set of requirements we had made for working on a final project.

Since the teaching staff had decided on the new set of requirements before the last school term, we had to make the students aware of this. So I hung several posters around the building before the registration period then to announce the new requirements. One particular requirement I was anxious for the students to know was that they needed to present a proposal before this school term registration period before they can be allowed to enroll in the final project course.

To my satisfaction, students who planned to work on their final project for the coming academic year read my announcements and were able to meet up with their supervisors to work on a proposal. This is why we had that one day of proposal presentations last week.

Unfortunately, there were a handful of students who probably don't make it a habit to read the announcements posted on our bulletin boards. And these were the ones who approached me days after we were done with the proposal presentations. By that time it was of course too late. We had made it very clear that they had to present a proposal by last Tuesday.

It mystifies me how they could have missed any of the announcements I posted. I had one on my door, another at the bulletin board where we always post announcements about final projects, another on the corkboard outside our main entrance and a few more on each of the corkboards just outside out lecture halls.

For me not reading those posters was completely inexcusable. After all, the rest of their classmates didn't miss seeing those posters. So why did they?