No, really, I mean it.
Oct. 23rd, 2006 21:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI pulled the times for all the classes in my major and elective lists offered in Winter, pasted them into a text file, and then laid them out in a spreadsheet. This is my SOP for picking potential schedules.
I have years of experience in picking classes, often with seriously impacted sections, prereqs, and all the other grief. I'm used to burning through four or five schedules when it actually comes time to register, before I find one that works. I'm hardly a wuss.
I wanted to take BIS 101 (preferably on a TTh schedule, not earlier than 9), PLB 112, and PLB 142. There goes that idea.
To say this is the worst grid I've ever seen is an understatement. While I can find one schedule in that, maybe two, I wouldn't be able to avoid going up at least four days a week, which will double my cost for train tickets (currently about $500) unless I actually get someplace to live up there... and it's far too early to tell what vacancies there may be. It might actually make financial sense to drive up instead of taking the train.
After agonizing over this for fifteen minutes, I decided that it's time to call in the professionals. I don't know whether an academic advisor would be able to make anything better out of this hash than I can, but they can damn well try.
I have years of experience in picking classes, often with seriously impacted sections, prereqs, and all the other grief. I'm used to burning through four or five schedules when it actually comes time to register, before I find one that works. I'm hardly a wuss.
I wanted to take BIS 101 (preferably on a TTh schedule, not earlier than 9), PLB 112, and PLB 142. There goes that idea.
To say this is the worst grid I've ever seen is an understatement. While I can find one schedule in that, maybe two, I wouldn't be able to avoid going up at least four days a week, which will double my cost for train tickets (currently about $500) unless I actually get someplace to live up there... and it's far too early to tell what vacancies there may be. It might actually make financial sense to drive up instead of taking the train.
After agonizing over this for fifteen minutes, I decided that it's time to call in the professionals. I don't know whether an academic advisor would be able to make anything better out of this hash than I can, but they can damn well try.
