August 28, 2006
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Online Registration — Yeah right!
So, I’ve been trying to register for my classes all morning. To say I’m frustrated would be an understatement. The college has spent the last month moving all their data to a new server and using new programs for their online registration etc. Today is the first day of Fall/Masters registration. I got on early in the hopes of getting the classes I want — One I’m really interested in — Children’s Literature (sounds fun and I’ve heard it’s an awesome class). It usually fills up very quickly.
To my dismay I first wasn’t able to register for any graduate level courses — only undergraduate, not helpful.
I called my Graduate Services Rep who is a great guy, very helpful. To say that his day has been way to eventful and highly frustrating would also be an understatement. However he was very friendly and very helpful, put me in as graduate student and told me try in about 5 minutes, if I had more problems to call back.
20 minutes later I called back (you see how this is going?).
He was unable to register me from that end and was intending to report the problem. He told me to call him back this afternoon and see what was up.
Man I hope I get those classes. — <sigh>.
Education is a funny thing. Especially at the higher levels. There is always something going wrong that you have to fix. You really have to stay on top of everything. I guess that one of the things that make you appreciate your education — the fact that you have to work so hard to get it! (and I’m not talking about studying).
Well off to try one more time…..
and again….
and again….
Question of the day:
What is it that you have worked very hard for and appreciate in your life?
Comments (7)
I feel it’s taken my life time but I think I’m getting closer to my true “career” calling; vs just a job status. I think God needed me to be a big sister, a wife, a mother, an aunt, bounce from job to job getting experience, live and learn and then go to Him to ask what He wanted me to do, be and go after in my life. After my last “intro” session He directed me to nursing assistant school and was with me every step of the way. I know that He knew in January I wasn’t called to H/O and held me until this month for heart/renal. I continue to pray that HE guides me and shows me the way in the next year. I plan after that with His help and Cook Children’s to go back and start on becoming an RN.
I hope that’s what you meant. I know what you mean about “colleges”. I was actually on-line looking at classes when I got the message of the opening I have currently took on. I’m glad God realized that I need the “bottom line” given so that I don’t waiver in listening. Anyway, I still hate the web site for Weatherford College but loved my time there and maybe will see it again in a year.
I would have to say my son’s education and rearing. I have worked very hard at it and sometimes hubby has a tendency to erase if you will, all the stuff I have tried to teach. Thankfully Andrew has always known better and doesn’t listen when dad doesn’t say excuse me or please and thank you. It is a constant battle but I appreciate all my hard work when people tell me what a great son I have, or he’s so polite, what a lovely young man. That sort of stuff. I hope you can get those classes too and know how frustruating the online process of things can be. I HAVE DIAL UP so everything takes forever. Smiles to ya.
You have my sympathy with the registration nightmare. I always feel so sorry for everyone when the server goes down, or they don’t have the PIN, or the class they really need is full…a hundred different things. Then the ultimate cut, you have what you want, everything is set and then they cancel your schedule because they didn’t get paid…because the financial aid side didn’t send the check across the hall fast enough! I hope you do get the children’s literature class. We called it “kiddie lit” and I have wanted to take it about as long as I have been working in libraries, just because it HAS to be fun! How could all those wonderful books not be fun?
Now, what have I worked hard for…I think it would be my status as an independent female who can take care of herself. I never wanted to be a role model but I realized that my students did look at me and see a single woman who owned a home and did very well and was happy, without a man “to support her”. Now that I have married later in life, I am still an independent person, very happy with a man who is my partner but I appreciate that I am with him because I want to be, not because I have to be.
Better luck with registration!
I sure hope that you end up with what course you want! How frustrating…
As for what I have worked very hard for… my marriage & raising my girls! Probably what I’ve sacrificed the most for, am most proud of, and love the dearest! Careers and jobs can come & go, but my family is with me for life.
Computer problems!!!!..UGGGGGG, if it wasn’t for the fact that my hubby is a network administrator I would be throwing my laptop out the window at least twice a month!…thank God I can just “Mike!, it’s doing it again?!”, and he comes runnign and keeps me from throwing the damn thing away!
RYC: Mike and I own a condo in Kehei, we love it there, it is ocean from at Kauhale Makai (Villidge by the Sea), we have owned it for about 3.5 years now. Do you live in Maui? I would love to meet you!…we have been going to Maui yearly since 1995 (our honeymoon), and since owning the condo in 2002, we come out about 2 to 4 times per year.
Let me know if you live there, I would love to set up a time to meet.
Alicia
Mondays suck!
On the material side of things, I am very appreciative of my bachelor’s degree, because it took me 20 years to complete and I am the first college grad in our family. On the important side of things, I most appreciate the lovely young women my daughters are becoming. There is no greater feeling in the world than having a tween or teen take time to tell you they love you. Second best is when teachers/parents stop to tell you what a great kid you have. I guess the swats on the rear, groundings, taking away of privileges, endless hours of educational kiddie tv, volunteering in the classroom, leading Girl Scout troops is starting to pay off.