2008 Woodie Awards
Dropping classes hard task
Colleen Sheehy
Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: Opinion
Originally published: 9/20/07 at 10:18 PM EST
Last update: 9/20/07 at 10:17 PM EST
- Page 1 of 1
As we all know, it is the beginning of the semester and students are still trying to get their schedule straight - I'm one of them.
I came into this semester carrying 14 credits, five of which included PSTV and Cardinal Points while the other three were 3-credit courses. That…yeah…5 plus nine…okay 14.
Week one of classes I quickly learned that my 4-5:45 p.m. political anthropology class wasn't for me, by a long shot. Even though it was a gen-ed, I decided that weekend to drop the course. This drop however would bring me to only 11 credits, and I need to keep full-time status for my loans to process. Headache.
Luckily for me, I found a way to get a 2-credit gig writing broadcast copy for WARP. Sweet. Now I can drop and add these classes and keep my full-time status. While also dropping a regular course and adding a management course.
So I hop online onto Banner Web to get this done and it just so happened that my online add/drop period had ended the first weekend of school. Why?
I then found myself in the Learning Center picking up add/drop forms where I had to get signatures from the teacher of the class, my advisor, and the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Yikes.
Once again I caught a break, being that my advisor was the teacher of one class I was dropping. Running around between Kehoe, Yokum and Hudson for 3 days I was finally able to get everything straight.
Long story short - why can't this all be done online? Instead of hassling three different teachers so I can drop a class, there should be an online option that lasts longer than a week. Point, click, drop.
I came into this semester carrying 14 credits, five of which included PSTV and Cardinal Points while the other three were 3-credit courses. That…yeah…5 plus nine…okay 14.
Week one of classes I quickly learned that my 4-5:45 p.m. political anthropology class wasn't for me, by a long shot. Even though it was a gen-ed, I decided that weekend to drop the course. This drop however would bring me to only 11 credits, and I need to keep full-time status for my loans to process. Headache.
Luckily for me, I found a way to get a 2-credit gig writing broadcast copy for WARP. Sweet. Now I can drop and add these classes and keep my full-time status. While also dropping a regular course and adding a management course.
So I hop online onto Banner Web to get this done and it just so happened that my online add/drop period had ended the first weekend of school. Why?
I then found myself in the Learning Center picking up add/drop forms where I had to get signatures from the teacher of the class, my advisor, and the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Yikes.
Once again I caught a break, being that my advisor was the teacher of one class I was dropping. Running around between Kehoe, Yokum and Hudson for 3 days I was finally able to get everything straight.
Long story short - why can't this all be done online? Instead of hassling three different teachers so I can drop a class, there should be an online option that lasts longer than a week. Point, click, drop.
Be the first to comment on this story