Registration f**king sucks!

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*Angry noises*

I just had registration for fall classes today. I get there 20 minutes early and am still towards the back of the c**ksucking line. My top 2 choices were full before I was even allowed in the f*****g arena. They give us cards with certain times on them, they randomly select the people by time. I had to get 4 classes. The card allows you 9. I filled out all 9 spots beforehand. Only 3 of my 9 were available. I had to improvise immediately. I'm taking two languages next semester because that's all I could f*****g get. I'm f*****g stressed too because I hate waiting in loud lines then frenetically trying to race for your classes. I've never gotten the classes that I've wanted. I should f*****g transfer. I f*****g hate the registration process here. It probably sucks ass everywhere though.

can you not use the AS to advantage and say you can`t do the whole crowd of people and queuing thing then get to state your choices ahead of time!

They don't have online registration? That does suck!

My college was nice... After my first year there all the class registration was done online. You were given a period of time to go on the site to register. Priority was based on seniority and credit count.

They say that would give me an unfair advantage on getting the classes that I want. The only offer they give me to wait until after registration and then I can pick at the scraps. f**k that.



They don't have online registration. Even when I was an incoming freshman they gave us a 5 day orientation period before classes started and that included registering. Maybe I really should transfer...

One of my worst days at college was registration day.... ugh....

Don't they have booklets you can pick up and you pick the classes and you send it back in. I did that when I was 19 when I took three fun courses.

same anger here.

i major in philosophy and have sociology as my primary subsidiary subject - the philosophers are an easygoing crowd. you are interested in a seminar, you go there. nobodys going to count the people and throw the last three out. we even had a course that was aimed at being about 20 people with over 60 people arriving. the doc smiled, we carried chairs out to the hallway and we held the seminar with 60+ people in the hallway.
institute of sociology, however, is veeery different. until now, they said when the booth opens (9am), and people started to be there from 6am. when arriving punctually, you had more than three hours wait to do. hooray.
this time, they topped even that: without sending emails round, they put on their website that registration will be done online only, this term. you have to download their excel file, put in the seminars you want to go to, rename the file to include your name in a specific format and e-mail it to them with the file name as the e-mail subject. only then will your entry be accepted.

so, me studying sociology only as subsidiary subject, i have to coordinate when my philosophy schedule leaves me some time for attending a sociology class. of all the classes i applied to, i was taken for none. for the seminars they have one or two places on the scraps list, i have no time because of my schedule.

wow.

i mean, who do they think they are? not everybody is able to have his world spin around their stupid whims.
right now, i am mad enough at them to pay them a visit...

Are you guys talking about university?
Because i'm a bit confused by all this..
Where i live, you just follow a standard package of courses. (you could follow Programming and it would include 4h of Java, 2h of linux, 4h of C++ and so on)
You don't pick out your courses by yourself, you can't customize.

I cant believe they are still doing registration this way....back in 1982,when I began college,we did this(horse and buggy days)I cant believe we have all this technology and they are still doing things this way.

Short answer: No.



It didn't even matter for me how early I got there. They send us these registration cards in the mail and randomly assign three different times on the cards. The times on the cards tell you what time you are allowed into the arena. Then you have to f*****g stand in the line for your time. The people who get the card for the earliest time get there hours beforehand to guarantee that they get all the classes that they want. I've never been assigned the early time before although this was the fourth time I've had to go through this BS, they say it's random. The people in the later lines watch the board to see which classes are filled up while we stand there not allowed to enter the arena. I watched my first two choices get put on that board while I waited outside for twenty minutes in the motherf*cking rain.

Sorry hit the submit button by accident.

It's a college. Maybe they do things a little different in universities.



I know. It's f*****g absurd, isn't it! The IT people at my campus are fu*ktarded. Every time we have a break they mess with the campus wireless and we have to re-register with their system or our computers have no internet access. I think my college might have used to have internet registration but for some reason they disocntinued it. Hackers or something, combined with incompetent tech people, and this is supposedly one of the top rated most prestigious colleges in the f*****g state. After being here I see that the reason for that is that they spend millions on worthless s**t such as these crappy art pieces to litter the campus than actually spending the money to help the f*****g students. I want to f*****g transfer. The prestige of the diploma means nothing if I can never get into the classes that I want. I might have to choose my major based upon what I am allowed to take, this s**t could have a massive effect on my future and it is pissing me off! Maybe I should have put this in the rants section.

I haven't gone through what you had to deal with in over 15 years, and I've taken classes at three schools in the interim. Almost everywhere has switched to online registration by now. Sorry you had to deal with stone-age techniques. It's funny, because it's cheaper to do online for the schools too.

As much money as people now have to pay to go to classes,this is really absurd.They are the "customers".....if some classes are more popular then others,then they need to hire the staff that can teach these classes.

Who in their right mind would go stand in line at a Best Buy,just to be told,they would have to pay the same price for a piece of crap computer as the top of the line one that some random customer got to buy.This doesnt make any sense to me.And then after getting stuck in some class you never wanted but have to take,or no longer be considered a fulltime student....You end up in an aditorium,listening to the professor on audio-tape or an "assistant" intern and never get to even talk to the "prestigious" professor or ask questions because their are 200 hundred other people in your class.I remember having professors assign reading assignments and then spend the whole class reading it to the class...this wasnt high school.College can be an over priced
blackmail to earn a piece of paper in the off chance of getting a more satisfying job.They not only have you by the balls,they make you pay for the privilege.

You said it. That's exactly how I feel. Having it happen yet again has really demoralized me. I'm not sure how hard I can force myself to try next semester. I don't want to lose my scholarship if I do poorly next semester but I'm really sick of this s**t. Taking classes I don't want to take is killing my work ethic. At least maybe the damaged work ethic will give me more time to try to learn to socialize. My parents will be pissed though.

I enrolled for my new school a week b4 the start of the year and made my choices. I got one of them only missing out on the other bcause of a timetable clash with my accelerant compulsory subjects. No big deal. I don't mind the option I got put in even though its only for the 1st half of the year which is drama btw.