Our Voice
Quick show of hands. Who’s looking forward to getting up at the crack of dawn to register for classes?
Yeah, neither do we.
Who’s already visited their advisor to get their holds removed so that they can register? Who didn’t know you had to?
It’d be best to get on that.
Another show of hands. Who’s cool enough to have priority registration?
Lucky.
Registration’s always a fun topic to lambaste at this time of year, because there’s always some flaw with the process, it’s always fun to waylay someone for making us wake up early and we always feel the need to complain when we don’t get that all-important course we need to graduate.
We’ve all been there. Freshmen, rejoice; it’s your turn now.
So let’s review some good tips for registration. The first thing you have to do is speak to your advisor. If you don’t know who your advisor is, you might want to go on PAWS and figure that out now. Make an appointment to see them as soon as you can. Also, be sure to make an appointment early, as advisors get very busy leading up to registration.
Go prepared with a list of courses you would like to take, and have a basic outline prepared. You can’t register until your advisor removes your hold, and they won’t remove it if you aren’t prepared.
There haven’t been any sweeping changes to registration this year. It still goes in order by your year, so upperclassmen will continue to have first dibs, and so forth until the newest students are left to pick from the scraps. Don’t get us wrong, there are still plenty of good courses left in the scraps. Just beware, essential core classes (particularly foreign language ones) will be the first to fill up.
You still sign up using PAWS, and, if previous years have been any indication, you will be competing against several hundred of your peers in the same year for server use. Expect the process to be slow, and expect classes to fill before you can ever type in the CRN number. Have alternates ready.
If all else fails, remember some classes will be added later. Keep checking back. Also, at the beginning of next semester you can get teachers to give you seat modifiers (an extra seat in their class), though you’ll want to check with them in advance to see if they’ll give you one.
Lastly, there are a few choice people on this campus who are blessed to be able to register early. Athletes get this privilege, as do students who work for various organizations on campus. The students in the Eta Sigma Alpha honors society have lost priority registration this semester (scuttlebutt has it they’re not too happy about it).
Personally, we believe newspaper editors deserve priority as well.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Oct 5 2007. Filed under Opinion, Our Voice.
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