Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Online Registration= waste of time



After I had my schedule approved by my adviser yesterday, I was told to register online this morning at 8:30 a.m. Well, I tried, but it was not very successful.

The first class I tried for only had two spots left, in a class of 15. Once I clicked it, it said I did not have a prerequisite that I needed to take the class. In the coursebook, it doesn't list any prerequisite, and my adviser didn't say anything about it yesterday. Once trying again, the class was full, which kind of wrecks my whole schedule. Then, for other classes, they required adviser approval, and contained other error comments. With frustration, I went to the registrar's office, where they proceeded to not knowing how to fix my problems. After an upset discussion, the only problem I had left was not being able to get into my class that was full.

After a day full of calls and e-mails, my schedule is finally the way I want it.

Nevertheless, the online registration is a good idea on paper, but essentially useless. I still had to go the registrar, and my problems aren't solved yet. I think it has a lot of flukes to work out and we will still just register in person, the way we do now.

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