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I'm still ninth on the waiting list for chem and sixth for bio. It's not looking particularly hopeful. A few of those will probably flunk fall quarter chem or bio and be pulled off the list, but still I'd better come up with a plan B. Anybody need a mobile phone coder for ten to twelve weeks?
What irks me a bit is knowing that within two weeks of the start of classes, at least that many people will have dropped out of these highly desirable classes. I'm amazed at how many people drop classes here! But by that time it will be far too late for anyone new to join. (Sitting in on lecture is one thing, but seats in lab are precisely numbered; I can't stay and watch.) I wish I could somehow petition to get some kind of better status for any student who will actually take the class.
I've heard that the huge influx of students is, in part, from four-year schools whose budget cuts meant fewer classes. I had wondered how I could possibly have gotten in to all my first-quarter classes -- when I must have had lower priority than I did this time -- if there was this much competition. After all, anyone taking chem 1B had to have needed chem 1A first, right? Answer: yes they did, and a large number of them took it elsewhere.
What irks me a bit is knowing that within two weeks of the start of classes, at least that many people will have dropped out of these highly desirable classes. I'm amazed at how many people drop classes here! But by that time it will be far too late for anyone new to join. (Sitting in on lecture is one thing, but seats in lab are precisely numbered; I can't stay and watch.) I wish I could somehow petition to get some kind of better status for any student who will actually take the class.
I've heard that the huge influx of students is, in part, from four-year schools whose budget cuts meant fewer classes. I had wondered how I could possibly have gotten in to all my first-quarter classes -- when I must have had lower priority than I did this time -- if there was this much competition. After all, anyone taking chem 1B had to have needed chem 1A first, right? Answer: yes they did, and a large number of them took it elsewhere.
