Do Not Want

[torquill]

I 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.

Comments

[amanda-nye.livejournal.com]

I remember doing that. Gods, I was scared, but all turned out ok. I hope it does for you, too.

[luna-torquill.livejournal.com]

Much hatred for the registrar and their mysterious rituals no one else knows.

I'm in.

[roadknight.livejournal.com]

I hate to be all "uphill both ways in the driving snow" at you, but that still has to beat camping out in the reg. hall the night before your slot @ 2PM the next afternoon like I had to do. Really, we brought sleeping bags and books and board games and the pizza guy would walk down the hall very gingerly to make sure his payload got dropped at the right gaggle of students in the east corner of the 3rd floor rather than the group who tried to bribe him on the 2nd.

[agengrgal.livejournal.com]

Wow! Reg didn't used to be that bad. I don't ever remember fully missing a pass time. I don't know how but I always knew when and was ready. I'm glad you got your classes and are going to rail the registrar!

[luna-torquill.livejournal.com]

I never camped out as a freshman or sophomore, but that was partly because the total population of my university was 1500 students. I do remember waiting in line for something like four hours, carefully written tables in hand, hastily scribbling new schedules as the assistant came out every twenty minutes or so and started crossing class sections off the lists on the wall next to the line.

amanda_nye remembers it too, I'm sure -- standing in line in the dim wood-paneled basement hall. The memory is etched in my skull for all time. :P

[amanda-nye.livejournal.com]

Yes, remember it well... waiting for hours in the smelly line, class registry in hand along with extra copies of scheduling grids, panic each time they came out to the wall o' classes. Just standing at the window registering, the class would be open when you asked for it, and closed by the time they clicked it.

[amanda-nye.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got your classes. Kudos for taking a stab at it. Being upperclass also helps.

I think the registrar should get a mighty earful. Sneaking registration up on folks, then not saying what to do it you miss it is just wrong. Being a student without classes is just not possible. Being a student without the right classes is just hell.