Okay so here is what made me really mad today…
At Deakin (my uni) they insist on doing everything (except exams) online, including signing up for your classes, which is all fine and good EXCEPT that they give you silly allocation times, so today I had access from 1pm onwards, so after making a mock timetable so I knew what I wanted and when I waited patiently for 1pm to come around and then right on 1pm I pushed the sign up button thinking “yes I am in I am going go straight in and get what I want and be done with it” but do you know what happened????
I was put in a queue, that’s right, a queue on the internet???? I mean I’ve heard of slow internet, but a queue that’s just ridiculous, but that’s not the only thing not only was I in the queue but the queue was MASSIVE, I pushed the button right on 1pm, and do you what number I was in the queue?????????
394,
Can you believe that? Three Hundred and Ninety Four people push the button before me, when I was sure I pushed it right on 1pm…Its stupid!! So then they tell me that I have a 25mintue wait. So being the wise woman that I am I try to trick the system and sign in again and just see what happenes, but they noticed and gave me the same silly message…
“You are currently position 394 in the queue.The waiting time is approximately 26 minute/s.
This page will automatically refresh in 1 minute/s”
This page will automatically refresh in 1 minute/s”
So times things just don’t work and this is one of them…
Love em
4 comments:
Emma, I feel your pain. By the way the prac is from 4-6pm...not 7pm. Hopefully this makes you feel a little better. And at least there was actually a prac class available for you. If you're lucky you might be able to swap classes on Saturday.
I like your pictures.
In my day (damn! can't believe i just wrote that - no turning back now, i'm getting old... *SIGH*)
anyway, in my day, we lined up for two hours. same problems, same length, just the line was physical instead of virtual. interesting to know you still miss out on the classes you want just like i did (i had a 5 hour biochemistry prac on FRIDAY afternoon in second year!!!), and that the wait is just as long, only it's a virtual wait.
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
It just occurred to me that first year uni was now 14 years ago... *grumble*
I going now to mope and feel sorry for myself...
it's a university scam based on how much HECS you pay
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