dude01 said:
After going to the uni on tues and handing in my program variation form all my units were finally up correctly this morning! Still, I missed out on my preferred tut time for microeconomcs, which means that I will have to go to uni on fridays for ONE fucking hour. I e-mailed the course co-ordinator and he told me that there was nothing he could do... so my plan is to just rock up at the time I wanted anyway. I just can't believe they didn't tell me on enrolement/academic advising that one of our units wouldn't be available, so don't choose it. If they told us in the beginning everything would have been ok.
A note to everyone!
DON"T email coordintors telling them you want to be put in another tute if there is another one you can attend!
they don't care if you would prefer another timetable... if you can attend all the classes, that's all that matters..
and everyone - yes its shit that stuff doesn't go up on time but you aren't the only ones who have/had problems with uws admin... you learn to get used to it and find ways around it... but calling the uni over and over and over won't help... if they tell you that it's on their system, you just have to wait til it shows up on yours... if it's not logged on their system yet - calling and abusing student centre staff will not get you anywhere as they cannot just fix it for you.. there are procedures to go thru..
it's a bitch but the only thing that will get you anywhere will be discussing calmly with your coordintor your options... if you ask them for help rathe rthan make requests or demands they are more open to help you as they are just as sick of the bullshit of admin as you are and don't respond well to repetitive demands....
just be thankful that you actually get a choice... other unis, so many people automatic-register like a girl i tutored coz she didn't know there was another optino.. and she has 5 days a week, 9-11 or 10-12 and 3-4 or 2-4... which is just about as shit as you can get...
just register for the time being and once uni starts - speak to your coordinator again and explain to them your situation... if you don't work tell em you do
and that you can't earn a living if you are stuck wit the timetable or something like that... don't just tell em it's coz the timetabke's too spaced out.... its one of those times when honesty usually doesn't get you very far