And, where students did not pay tuition, administrators felt the programs were too expensive to maintain.
The modified block was implemented because some teachers and administrators felt that some courses needed to be year long.
Young doctors, the administrators felt, were less inclined to feel culpable when they did something wrong.
"If the situation lasts for the next six or seven months, the American administrators will feel like they're sitting on a big volcano," he said.
But the biggest challenge for the students has been age, and it is one the home's administrators feel certain progress has been made.
But other administrators feel that such a policy deprives students of the opportunity to make their own choice.
So why did the administrators feel like they had to do something about them?
To get a sense of how teachers, administrators and students really feel about one another, check the bathrooms.
The administrator felt the muscles in his jaw tense.
But he said that teachers and administrators felt left out.