college registration bites

The BBQ Pit
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Grrrr… I hate stupid college registration. I am trying to graduate this summer and I need to be in Class A, so that I can take Class B in the spring, and Class C during the summer. The classes must be taken in order and Class A is nigh impossible to get into.

I’m an English major, so yesterday I went to the College of Arts & Science advisor who sent me to the English advisor, who sent me to the Foreign Lanugages Dept. who were no help at all except that I was able to trick them into telling me the name of the professor. So today I tracked the professor down during her office hours (or should I say office half-hour as she’s only available from 8:30a-9a). The best she could do was offer to let me audit the class. She did mention that six people dropped the class yesterday and that I might try adding the class this morning. Well, no luck-- it is already full again.

So, since 9am, I have been sitting in a computer lab clicking refresh over and over on the web reg hoping that I will catch someone else dropping the class. There has got to be a better way to do this! Today is the third day of class and I still don’t have a set schedule!

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Let me tell you a story, sonny. In my day we didn’t sit at computers and click refresh. We woke up early and hauled our asses to a site on campus so we could wait in line to try to add and drop classes.

If you got to the front of the line and there were no spots, there was no “refresh”. You had to come up with Plans B-Z to try to work out a schedule.

And we had to write our requests on papyrus by torchlight.

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Bah, you spoiled kids with your torches and papyrus! In my day, we had to stand near a tree and wait for lightning and then chisel real fast.:smiley:

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Chisels? I wish we had fancy iron tools.