Today was one of the more stressful days since I've been here – course registration. It started off easy enough, I was told I had an advisor appointment at 11:15 where I would be able to enroll in my classes. I thought, great, I can finally meet with someone in the biology faculty and get their input on what classes to take. I was wrong. I walked into the building and was given a number and told to sit with the other students who were waiting for an open advisor. Once my name was called the man pointed me to most likely a graduate student, who had me take out my form of approved classes and within 5 minutes, she said I was done. I couldn't believe it was that fast and I got all my classes that I wanted – I was thrilled. So I spent the next couple of hours wandering around by myself, getting my student ID card (the picture makes me want to kill myself) and went on a venture to find how to use campus internet. This was quite the feat in itself as nothing is as simple as Wooster here in Australia, but after 2 hours of asking countless amounts of people, I finally did it! Yay free internet!
It was only at the welcome pizza lunch when I was talking with my friends and they started complaining about registering for classes. Some were complaining about how they had classes on Fridays or not having room for classes they wanted to take, and I mentioned I hadn't even looked at my schedule yet. One of them looked at me in disbelief and asked if I had done my time table yet. The time table is your schedule, so apparently once you were enrolled in the classes you wanted, you then had to fit the available sections of those courses into one neat little schedule. But I figured the grad student wouldn't have enrolled me in the courses if they overlapped – wrong. When I finally was able to check and try to figure out my time table, only two of my classes worked, two overlapped completely, and one didn't even have an opening in the lecture.
At wooster, this would have been a pain, but I could just go through and sign up for a different class. Here, entirely different story. I need to have the supervisor of that subject sign off on the fact that I can take the course to even have it show up as an option online for me, and then I have to see if any of those sections fit into my time table. This means I need to run around campus trying to find these lecturers, beg them to put me in their class, but it all could be for nothing if it can't fit in my time table. I was ready to freak, and I had no idea where to go to for help. I finally ended up emailing a couple of professors to see if I could get into their class, and left to go home. It was ridiculously frustrating, but later in the night one of them emailed me back saying I could absolutely join her class and she doesn't think the time tables with overlap, so I'm overjoyed. I now have 3 of my 4 classes, the forth is a giant question mark at the moment but I'll find a subject tomorrow.
I finished off my night by watching gran torino with a couple people from arcadia, which I thought was absolutely fantastic. Very powerful movie. Let's hope tomorrow is better class-wise.
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