Registration nightmare part 2

[cjsmith]

At 4:59 I was awake and ready to get myself on some wait lists.

For over two and a half hours I hit "refresh". The site was hosed. Either it was badly overloaded or broken; it's hard to tell.

At 7:40 I managed to log in, and I am now tenth on one wait list and fifteenth on another. I'm also taking Spanish. I'll add a writing class if there's a placement test given in the next few weeks. If I won't be spending my days in science labs, I'll need something to occupy my time.

Comments

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Bleah. :(

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sucks. I hope the wait lists empty quickly. Sometimes it works...

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Might I suggest taking something that's just fun, too? An art class of some kind, or music?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. If I had THAT kind of leisure time I could get a part time JOB! :-/

[ambar.livejournal.com]

It gets better, I swear, if only because the closer you are towards graduation, the higher your priority gets. :-/

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, but there's no such thing as graduation, and unless I can take any classes, I won't get any closer.

Well, I guess at least I'm taking Spanish.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

Well, at Foothill it was done by number of units accumulated. At Hayward, it was done by filing for graduation, which (I discovered in time) could be done quite a while before one was actually in shouting distance of fulfilling the requirements. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the process of accumulating useless units in order to have a fighting chance of getting into the classes you came to take is frustrating and time-consuming. (For "time-consuming" read "mindbogglingly expensive for those who are paying for housing in the Bay Area while wasting their time".) But at least with a process like that there IS an end. The program terminates.

I do envy the people whose housing is being provided by parents while they go through this.