crs bulok
Well my anger and frustration has ebbed tremendously since thursday
when i found out that CRS changed the enrollment procedure for this
summer. They made it online and they announced it the day before the
first day of enrollment!
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Aside from stupidly not informing the
students, they also conveniently did not inform the (in my case)
engineering administration, the engineering registration commitee, even
the other engineering departments, so on the day of registration
everybody didn’t know what to do.
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The enrollment process used
to be, pre-enlist online, go to your department to fetch the your list
of pre-enlisted subjects, go to the departments that offer the subjects
you want and have them manually (as in written in paper) encode you
into the class list, have your reg form checked and then pay.
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they changed it into, pre-enlist online, go to your department to get your list of pre-enlisted subjects, enlist online, print your enlisted subjects, have your subjects checked or they’ll be cancelled, pay.
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Now
here is the first stupid. If they’re going to impose online enlistment,
why didn’t they just give all the slots during pre-enlistment?
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Stupid
no 2: They imposed online enlistment, but the servers for the
enlistment isn’t able to accomodate all the influx of people logging
in. So instead of eliminating lines, they just concentrated all the
lines into one BIG line behind the computer center because of stupid
no. 3.
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Stupid no. 3: The online enlistment can only be accessed
through dilnet but they didn’;t provide enlistment computers. As one of
my friends said, even if we overloook the blatant miscalculation of
bandwidth needs how the hell are people going to access online
enlistment? The answer was of course the computer center, where people
lined up for hours just to get to the computer terminals only to find
out (after constant window refreshes) that the subjects they want is
already full. At least during manual enlistment, you’lll find out your
subjects are full the moment they are becuase it’s going to be
announced when you fall in line for that subject.
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They could
have at least informed reg com earlier then maybe regcom would have
provided computers at the engineering lobby or somewhere else. I’m
sure other reg com of other colleges would have done the same.
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Stupid
no 4: They rushed the implementation. Wi eman what else could oyu
conclude from an announcement that came out on the day before
registration period and a registration commitee that doesn’t know and
weren’t briefed of the new protocols?
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Personaly I pity the
engineering regcom because people ask them for information which they
themselves do not know becasue they weren’t briefed. So the students
end up venting their anger at the regcom. And when the regcom goes to
the admin for help, the admin isn’t able to help either because,
whaddaya know, the admin wasn’t informed either.
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Stupid no. 5
Colleges need to go thorugh tons of paper work and signings just to
input subjects into the system. Sometimes colleges get petitions for
making osme subjects available for summer. And they get these petitions
during registration period itself. Before, one the subject is approved,
the department offering that subject can easily release an announcement
so that the students can enlist. But now they have to get permission
again just so they can input it into CRS. That’s ok if the permission
is given instantly but it’s not and slow permitting is ok if the
registration period is long, but the registration period is only for
two days.
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Gawd I can go on and on about the stupid things that they failed to foresee. But my day is just going to get ruined.
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Fortunately, due to sheer luck, I was able to enlist ES 11 and Che 123 or else I’m toast.
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i
just hope they don’t use this for the 1st sem registration or rather
have the common sense not to try anything stupid like it again.
