I'm screwed for next semester

[Q]

Damn registration system. I transferred so I'm a 'semester behind' by the computer, so every other semester I get screwed and have to register with the class under me. Anyway, it was fine until now. Registration for next year began this past week. I've talked to 2 friends who transferred as well, but one registered last Wed and the other last Thursday. Mine is tomorrow.

I looked on my roommate's account and every damn important class I need is full. Transfer = worst decision ever.

/rant


and no I'm not going to FML

 

[xSauronx]

sucker. i picked a crappy school so i can get whatever class i want. take *THAT*

 

[Brainonska511]

Such retarded registration systems.

My school has one week for pre-registration. Everyone can pre-register at any time during this week and a computer sorts it out later. Most classes, priority goes by seniority (4th years, 3rd years, etc... no in betweens like your situation) and by the ranking of importance that you placed the class during pre-registration.

 

[imported_Champ]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
sucker. i picked a crappy school so i can get whatever class i want. take *THAT*

good plan...but it works better when you pick a crappy major. thake *THAT*

 

[KevinCU]

:laugh:

 

[Sedition]

i never registered at all until like a week or two before classes and never had a problem getting into them. Even if there was a small problem, I could email the prof and they usually were able to swing something.

Quit being a whinny loser.

I swear this FML stuff is some of the most emo bullshit I've seen in a while.

 

[RESmonkey]

Oh, yeah? I have to pick classes soon, and I don't know what I have to take. I am an Electrical Engineering major, but I don't like it, and want to do something like Nuclear. Can't talk to advisors because I'm off home sick with the flu, missing tons of work and class. That flu made me lose a week's worth of time--all spent in bed, or in the bathroom vomiting.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: Sedition
I swear this FML stuff is some of the most emo bullshit I've seen in a while.

Which is why I said I wasn't going to say it - I hate the expression

 

[blinky8225]

Just email the professor or your dean. Normally they are pretty flexible about it if you absolutely need the class to graduate. I go to a smaller private school, though, so maybe your experience isn't the same.

 

[skim milk]

shit happens
FYL

 

[Skeeedunt]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
Oh, yeah? I have to pick classes soon, and I don't know what I have to take. I am an Electrical Engineering major, but I don't like it, and want to do something like Nuclear. Can't talk to advisors because I'm off home sick with the flu, missing tons of work and class. That flu made me lose a week's worth of time--all spent in bed, or in the bathroom vomiting.

Ever heard of tel-o-phone? Work good *ring* *ring*

 

[DrPizza]

Good times. I remember arriving at the school at 5:30 am every time (I commuted from a half hour away) to make sure I was nearly first in line. I was never locked out of a class, thankfully. And, I always had awesome schedules, except when a class would only be offered at one time - 2-4 on Tuesday and Thursday (for example), so I'd have to commute just for one stupid class.

 

[dbk]

force add?

 

[HybridSquirrel]

this happens to me too. if you go to the registrars or advisors office and tell them your story...they will be like omg that so totally happened to me...and force add you (as dbk has said) to the class.

 

[boomhower]

You can usually get them to let you in. Hell my senior year I talked them into teaching a class to me and me alone because I needed it to graduate. It was a listed class but only three people signed up for it and the other two dropped it. But the school/prof let me take it as a "self study" class so I could graduate. This was a school of 20,000 so it wasn't a rinky dink hole in the wall place.

 

[Cheesetogo]

I like my school's registration system - it's based entirely on how many credits you have, so you don't have big rushes (or as big) for each class. For example, if I have 54 credits and someone else has 53, I probably get to register a day or two before them.

 

[eLiu]

what, that's retarded. For almost all classes here, there's no such thing as "full". The only exceptions are language classes (b/c everyone can't practice german in a class of 100) and these so-called "communications intensive" classes (you have to write a lot, talk in class, give presentations, so they limit the size). sometimes this leads to ridiculous shit like there being so many people in freshman chem that no lecture hall can contain them all, so they open overflow halls where a live video feed is shown. But I think that's still preferable to telling people, "no, you can't take this class right now."

edit:
boomhower, did you pick a rinky dink hole in the wall major though?

 

[LtPage1]

Step 1: email professor, get on the waitlist.
Step 2: go to the class until they let you in.
Step 3: I never needed a step 3, because steps 1 and 2 always worked.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: eLiu
what, that's retarded. For almost all classes here, there's no such thing as "full". The only exceptions are language classes (b/c everyone can't practice german in a class of 100) and these so-called "communications intensive" classes (you have to write a lot, talk in class, give presentations, so they limit the size). sometimes this leads to ridiculous shit like there being so many people in freshman chem that no lecture hall can contain them all, so they open overflow halls where a live video feed is shown. But I think that's still preferable to telling people, "no, you can't take this class right now."

edit:
boomhower, did you pick a rinky dink hole in the wall major though?

A live video feed?

What do they do for accompanying lab sections for freshman chem? Why not offer more than one lecture section for freshman chem? That would be much better than a crappy video feed.

 

[ric1287]

i got all the classes i wanted/needed for the first time for my next (9th) and final semester.

 

[blinky8225]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: eLiu
what, that's retarded. For almost all classes here, there's no such thing as "full". The only exceptions are language classes (b/c everyone can't practice german in a class of 100) and these so-called "communications intensive" classes (you have to write a lot, talk in class, give presentations, so they limit the size). sometimes this leads to ridiculous shit like there being so many people in freshman chem that no lecture hall can contain them all, so they open overflow halls where a live video feed is shown. But I think that's still preferable to telling people, "no, you can't take this class right now."

edit:
boomhower, did you pick a rinky dink hole in the wall major though?

A live video feed?

What do they do for accompanying lab sections for freshman chem? Why not offer more than one lecture section for freshman chem? That would be much better than a crappy video feed.

This is common practice at Berkeley I know. I assume there is more space in lab classrooms than there is in the lecture hall since you can have lab on multiple days and at multiple times.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm (hopefully) graduating in less than a month. the school's email system notified me the other day of my registration date for Summer semester...

I might take a class over the summer though. I need some math, but the stuff with letters and squiggly lines leaves me confused...

SO...I MIGHT take pre-algebra...so I can be like so many others and ask for math homework help here...

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: eLiu
what, that's retarded. For almost all classes here, there's no such thing as "full". The only exceptions are language classes (b/c everyone can't practice german in a class of 100) and these so-called "communications intensive" classes (you have to write a lot, talk in class, give presentations, so they limit the size). sometimes this leads to ridiculous shit like there being so many people in freshman chem that no lecture hall can contain them all, so they open overflow halls where a live video feed is shown. But I think that's still preferable to telling people, "no, you can't take this class right now."

edit:
boomhower, did you pick a rinky dink hole in the wall major though?

A live video feed?

What do they do for accompanying lab sections for freshman chem? Why not offer more than one lecture section for freshman chem? That would be much better than a crappy video feed.

Freshman courses here don't have lab sections. You have specific lab reqs for your major not general crap for courses you may never touch again. But for things like recitation/tutorial, they just have as many sections as needed to get each recitation down to ~30 people or less.

And yeah there were several lecture times, but it's not required that you attend any particular time. So if the school notices that 600 people keep showing up to the same time slot (and 100 of them sit in the aisles), they try to be accomodating.

 

[Auryg]

At my private school there's only been one class that I didn't get in to my first try.

They guarantee getting out in 4 years so it doesn't happen very often

 

[Chriscross3234]

Yeah transferring does come back to bite you in the ass... My GPA doesn't transfer from my old school and I have to take THREE classes this summer (which means no internship) in order to stay on track and not be a full year behind. Gotta do what ya gotta do I guess.