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This school has some serious problems in terms of administration, but twice a year these problems come to a grand head in what we at Bard refer to as registration day: the magical time every six months where we all deevolve into cutthroat, immoral rat bastards for the purpose of getting in line before everybody else. The day begins in a twisted form of Mutual-Assured-Cheating as we gradually file into the multipurpose room as many as four hours before registration cards are handed out. This phenomenon is met by the extreme distaste of one David Shein, who last semester forced the earliest among us to the back of the line and completely ignored the fact that EVERY STUDENT in that line had a mutual hatred for what they were doing. And for what do we degrade ourselves so? So that we can be the first to wait in ANOTHER exciting line at so that we can push, shove, and sweettalk our way into whichever class eighty-seven other equally qualified people want to get into (mine has a registration capacity of ten).
Tomorrow morning, in order to get the schedule I want, I have to convince TWO teachers that stooping to the lowest form of mankind and preregistering me is a good idea so that I can wait in line for the aforementioned 10 person class worry-free.
Admittedly to my detriment, the administration has managed to find and read my livejournal before. If by chance they happen to read this particular entry, which I am making public, know these three things:
1) We hate sitting outside the MPR just as much as you hate walking over us. Don't blame us; nothing about it is our fault. If anything, congratulate us on being so fucking dedicated that we'd sacrifice an entire morning sitting on the cold linoleum floor.
2) The internet is a beautiful thing. It will eleviate the MPR problem and give each student equal opportunity to get the classes he or she wants. If the network traffic becomes nearly uncontrollable as a result, do one of two things: a) upgrade, because in that case it probably should be done anyway, or b) suck it up, because it's better for everyone else if this can be done online. Bard doesn't have to distinguish itself by being the only institution left in the country who registers by pen and paper.
3) Every faculty member I've spoken with on this empathizes wholeheartedly with the students. There is nothing "fair" about this college's registration process, and if you want teachers to stop preregistering students, read the above entry for a damn good way to make it happen.
Tomorrow morning, in order to get the schedule I want, I have to convince TWO teachers that stooping to the lowest form of mankind and preregistering me is a good idea so that I can wait in line for the aforementioned 10 person class worry-free.
Admittedly to my detriment, the administration has managed to find and read my livejournal before. If by chance they happen to read this particular entry, which I am making public, know these three things:
1) We hate sitting outside the MPR just as much as you hate walking over us. Don't blame us; nothing about it is our fault. If anything, congratulate us on being so fucking dedicated that we'd sacrifice an entire morning sitting on the cold linoleum floor.
2) The internet is a beautiful thing. It will eleviate the MPR problem and give each student equal opportunity to get the classes he or she wants. If the network traffic becomes nearly uncontrollable as a result, do one of two things: a) upgrade, because in that case it probably should be done anyway, or b) suck it up, because it's better for everyone else if this can be done online. Bard doesn't have to distinguish itself by being the only institution left in the country who registers by pen and paper.
3) Every faculty member I've spoken with on this empathizes wholeheartedly with the students. There is nothing "fair" about this college's registration process, and if you want teachers to stop preregistering students, read the above entry for a damn good way to make it happen.