Another day, another semester

The first week of the new semester is always chaotic and extremely stressful.
As usual most of the sections are closed (full) and there are not enough classes to accomodate all the students. The university always end up having to open new sections at the very last minute. Untill the university opens new sections, students scramble to persuade the heads of deptartments,assistant deans, associate deans, and the deans of their colleges to raise the ceilings of the currently full classes. The students will plead their case to anyone willing to listen or give them the time of day. You see students camped out at the advising and registration offices of their college. At first glance, you just see a sea of black (from the abayas). You walk into the office space and you just hear such a commotion. Students pleading, students yelling, adminstrators yelling, students cursing, girls crying, adminstrators trying to calm the girls down, girls chatting(gossiping), girls laughing, phones ringing, security moving the girls along, printers and fax machines going bizeerk, the sound of students typing(more like banging) on the keyboards of their laptops. At first, you are overwhelmed from all the activity. You scramble out. You take a deep breathe, and you face the "mob".

They are relentless. It literally is survival of the fittest. Students will camp out for hours and hours and hours just to register for a class or two, and then try for more classes the following day. They come prepared; course catalogs,laptops,battery(charger),power outlets,mobiles, water bottles, snacks, etc.

And since you have to register online, sometimes the system starts lagging from all the users and sometimes it just gets messed up. That just causes even more problems because it delays the registration period for the students. Registration is not always open for all the students. It depends on what year you are and your GPA. Some students have it all week long, while others only have it for one day. Akhhhhh the chaos.

Me for example,I transfered from one college to another. So I couldn't register till I found out I was accepted into the college. I started off with 1 class. I needed to register 5 more courses. Once I found out i was accepted, I also had to scramble to get the courses i wanted with the instructors(professors) I wanted. You have to push, and push hard for the courses you want. You go to university from 7:30 am till 4:00 pm just trying and hoping to get a class. I sprained my ankle on tuesday night ( i can barely walk without screaming in pain and my doctor actually told me i was not to leave the house for any circumstances.) and that did not stop me from going to university bright and early on wednesday morning to finish getting all my courses. Hamduallah by 2:30 pm, I finished registering my 6 courses.

to recap this week> Registration week is a complete and total nightmare!

Its so annoying and frustrating that we have to go through so much crap just to get classes. I even get more annoyed when people say "Nothing comes easy". Im not asking you to make my schedule, but it doesn't have to be so damn difficult and frustrating. If advisors and adminstrators would do their damn job there wouldn't be all this chaos and confusion. Thats the problem, they just don't give a damn to try to solve or fix the problems at hand. They get paid, and thats all they worry about. Gob forbid if we give actually pay them for the amount of work they actually do. I mean you are wasting government money and resources by paying these incompetent people.