Course sign-up

I have a bit of a rant about course sign-up.

So as I might have told some of you already, I switched out of CS 145 (the advanced course) into CS 135 this week, on Tuesday. CS 145 is a combination of the two required courses for first year, CS 135 and CS 136, so if you finish the course, you move on to CS 241 after.

Unfortunately, the system (called Quest) still states that I’m in CS 145, even though I made the switch two days ago. Yesterday, I had to sign up for my courses, so because I was still registered in advanced comp sci, I was not allowed to register for CS 136, which was now a required course for me.

So I went to the Math Undergrad Office for help, and they said that I should wait another day to see if there are any changes, and that the change should have already been made, but maybe the processing was a little slow because of course sign-ups. So I did.

So I checked Quest today. No changes. I’m still enrolled in CS 145, but now, every single section of CS 136 had been filled. I went back to the advisor that was supposed to make the switch for me (I’m not allowed to do it by myself), and I was told to fill out a waiting list form to get into CS 136, which I could have got into quite easily if the switch had been made the day before. So now I’m on a waiting list for a required course for my major with 38 other people. the other 3 sections have around 40-5 people waiting to get in as well, with a total of 174 people on the waitlist for that course alone.

So now, I have to sit in agony, hoping that I get into a course that I need to complete for first year, because the “processing” of my override form to get into CS 135 was too slow. Let’s just say I’m not going to be too pleased I can’t get into that course.

~ by damantaray on October 15, 2009.