Registration

[cjsmith]

I get to attempt to register for classes tomorrow at 5am. Of the three classes I desperately need, I can take a maximum of two due to schedule conflicts between them. All sections of all three are full and have hefty wait lists. (Yes, I checked Foothill too, not that I think I can physically get around that campus enough to go to classes there.)

Welcome to community college science major hell.

It turns out that almost everybody on campus qualifies for some kind of early registration. If your parents show low or no income in the US (they can be oil moguls elsewhere, just no US income), or if you're in some kind of honor society (which means taking an extra useless class every quarter), or a bunch of other things I haven't investigated fully yet, you register before registration officially opens for the general student body. The system is designed to be maximally unfair in this particular way. Most of the people I know on campus registered in November.

It is clear I need to get into one of these categories by spring quarter. Evidently anyone who doesn't is a chump. (Maybe being a gimp will do it. This is California. Heck, maybe being female will do it.) It's too late for this coming quarter, though, so until about 5:10am tomorrow I'll just cross my fingers and hope.

Comments

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

I have a late registration date for spring :-( I think the only reason I got into the classes I wanted for winter intercession was because, well, winter break. Really sucks.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. I'm hoping to take more than a quarter's worth of stuff in summer, because summer doesn't fill as fast. Sadly, summer "quarter" is short and it's hard to take more than two things.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

huh. you have the same reg date I do this time. I've never had a problem though - environmental studies classes just don't fill up that fast.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

This quarter is a nightmare. It doesn't help that I know I'll have to take the finals a week early, and it definitely doesn't help that I'll be in the air over the Pacific Ocean on the first day of spring quarter. No getting into anything from the wait list, not if I'm not there on day one.

Registration working?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've been trying for forty minutes to log in. Is it working for you?

Re: Registration working?

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

I didn't even try until I got in to work because my internets at home have been totally borked for a week now. Then I got to work late because my train was delayed. I had no problem getting into the system at 9:40. But I had checked last night and there were 10 seats open in the one class I'm taking so I wasn't really worried :)