Do Not Want
May. 15th, 2007 18:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI missed registration for fall quarter.
As in, I can't register for classes.
This is bad.
No warning, no indication that we were even in the timeframe for fall reg. No email, no bulletins, no casual mention of it by anyone in charge. Zip. So I had no idea that my pass time was yesterday morning (or evening, if I missed that). The only way I would have known was if I happened to hit MyUCDavis yesterday on a lark.
I've mailed the registrar pleading for options. I'd really like to have something more than the scrapings left over for Pass 2 in late August.
Edit: Oh, look, there in the huge list of "important dates". Appointments run from the 14th through the 25th. Open reg starts the 26th. I guess I get to hope that the classes I want are still open by then.
Fuckers.
Edit the second: The registrar does this thing where they let you log in at 8pm on your pass date, in case you missed your morning appointment. (This is information that is not available unless you call them and ask, as I did last quarter.) I missed that yesterday, as I didn't know my pass date. I skipped the biochem midterm review tonight because I was falling apart, and came home.
On the way home, I thought hey... what if they do the 8pm thing for more than one day? Not bloody likely, but as I'll be getting home around 8, I might as well try to log in. Can't hurt.
Nick jumped when I suddenly swore and dove for my bookbag, where I had (thank heaven) already worked out a fall schedule, with reg numbers and everything. Two minutes later I was registered for everything I had planned. I may drop one of those classes later, but I wanted to know that I could be in it if I wanted it...
I think I may take a little time to write a scorching letter to the registrar, about the fact that the mechanism of registration is shrouded in far too much mystery. None of this information is in any well-known or accessible place, and it needs to be. It's not the sort of thing where it's acceptable to keep students in the dark.
As in, I can't register for classes.
This is bad.
No warning, no indication that we were even in the timeframe for fall reg. No email, no bulletins, no casual mention of it by anyone in charge. Zip. So I had no idea that my pass time was yesterday morning (or evening, if I missed that). The only way I would have known was if I happened to hit MyUCDavis yesterday on a lark.
I've mailed the registrar pleading for options. I'd really like to have something more than the scrapings left over for Pass 2 in late August.
Edit: Oh, look, there in the huge list of "important dates". Appointments run from the 14th through the 25th. Open reg starts the 26th. I guess I get to hope that the classes I want are still open by then.
Fuckers.
Edit the second: The registrar does this thing where they let you log in at 8pm on your pass date, in case you missed your morning appointment. (This is information that is not available unless you call them and ask, as I did last quarter.) I missed that yesterday, as I didn't know my pass date. I skipped the biochem midterm review tonight because I was falling apart, and came home.
On the way home, I thought hey... what if they do the 8pm thing for more than one day? Not bloody likely, but as I'll be getting home around 8, I might as well try to log in. Can't hurt.
Nick jumped when I suddenly swore and dove for my bookbag, where I had (thank heaven) already worked out a fall schedule, with reg numbers and everything. Two minutes later I was registered for everything I had planned. I may drop one of those classes later, but I wanted to know that I could be in it if I wanted it...
I think I may take a little time to write a scorching letter to the registrar, about the fact that the mechanism of registration is shrouded in far too much mystery. None of this information is in any well-known or accessible place, and it needs to be. It's not the sort of thing where it's acceptable to keep students in the dark.
