The Supreme Canuck
04-September-2007, 07:27 AM
This is how it works. Over the summer months, every student is issued a "registration time ticket" - basically a day for you to go online, log into the registration system (QCARD), and register for next year's courses. This occurred in July. Now, I hit a snag back then. I'm a Political Studies major and a History minor. Now, since it is not made clear anywhere how many Pols courses I should register for in a given year, and since the hints given are very difficult to interpret, I came to the conclusion that I needed 8 Pols courses and 2 Hist courses.
Fine.
So I start adding the courses to my timetable. But, wait! There's some limit on the number of "core course requests" that I can make of the Politics Department during this period (Preregistration). I can only add 6 Pols courses.
Fine. I do so, and add my 2 Hist courses as well. I can add the extra two Pols courses on 4 September, the beginning of the Add/Drop period. No problem.
About three days later, I find out that I'm supposed to have 6 Pols courses and 4 Hist courses! Crud! Preregistration is over by this point, so I can't correct the error (which would have been avoidable if the information was available to me in the first place).
Fine. I'll just add the two Hist courses I need on 4 September. Piece of cake.
It has now been 4 September for 2 hours and 30 minutes. I am in the same timezone as the university. I cannot add my courses because
** COURSE ADDS ARE NOT CURRENTLY ALLOWED FOR THE TERM SELECTED **
I'll likely have to wait until tomorrow morning for the bloody system to be activated, despite the fact that they mentioned no specific activation time - just 4 September. But if I wait until the morning, I may not be able to get into the limited slots remaining for any two Hist courses, and I'm sunk.
So here I am, at 2:30 AM EDT, waiting for QCARD to do what it is supposed to do.
I am not pleased.
Fine.
So I start adding the courses to my timetable. But, wait! There's some limit on the number of "core course requests" that I can make of the Politics Department during this period (Preregistration). I can only add 6 Pols courses.
Fine. I do so, and add my 2 Hist courses as well. I can add the extra two Pols courses on 4 September, the beginning of the Add/Drop period. No problem.
About three days later, I find out that I'm supposed to have 6 Pols courses and 4 Hist courses! Crud! Preregistration is over by this point, so I can't correct the error (which would have been avoidable if the information was available to me in the first place).
Fine. I'll just add the two Hist courses I need on 4 September. Piece of cake.
It has now been 4 September for 2 hours and 30 minutes. I am in the same timezone as the university. I cannot add my courses because
** COURSE ADDS ARE NOT CURRENTLY ALLOWED FOR THE TERM SELECTED **
I'll likely have to wait until tomorrow morning for the bloody system to be activated, despite the fact that they mentioned no specific activation time - just 4 September. But if I wait until the morning, I may not be able to get into the limited slots remaining for any two Hist courses, and I'm sunk.
So here I am, at 2:30 AM EDT, waiting for QCARD to do what it is supposed to do.
I am not pleased.