As we all, as students at UConn know, there are few things in life more frustrating than peoplesoft, its a well known fact. Richa, this goes out to you in particular, who rarely even schedules her own classes. however, one thing even MORE frustrating seems to be, get this, not having peoplesoft around. go figure. this past week has been a shitshow with me registering for classes with this incredibly convoluted system that is supposed to
(taken directly out of a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION that they have to put up because the system is so goddamn confusing. not only this, but said powerpoint is only for the system that the resident students use...theres a different system altogether for exchange students! little do we know this, and the professors here know only marginally more than we do, which basically means they know nothing more or less. for starters, students here BID for classes with points they are all given at the beginning of the semester. moreover, there are round for bidding, between which nothing can be done. retarded. the exchange student system is basically like peoplesoft's add/drop...but wait, it cant be that simple. we follow the "round" system, which is inherently retarded. not to mention, when you "add" a class, it takes the registrar's office 3-5 days to actually get back to you and let you know if you get the class or not. due to this, students are regularly attending 5 to 7 classes in the first couple weeks just in case they actually get registered in any of them. needless to day, peoplesoft's one shot deal with adding/dropping classes is MUCH preferred to this supposedly "responsibility building" but realistically chaotic system.
on the upside, apparently people here dont really know what a work week is, pretty much party 4 nights a week...during the week. so far, im on a streak of going out two nights starting wednesday, and have a feeling that may not end for another couple days. i dont know how much of this im gonna be able to handle or for how much longer..it def gets tiring after a little while. but at least at this point its a good way to go out and meet people. for the most part, people have found people they like to hang out with, and most have even started taking trips to places around here. me and a few friends were SUPPOSED to take a trip to Kukup, a nice little fishing town basically just over the Malaysian border, this weekend, but some douchebags decided it'd be fun to leave all of us off the list, so turns out we're singapore-bound this weekend. but it should still be okay...we havent explored at lot of the things do to around here, so im kind of excited to go to a couple museums they have on the island, a birdpark (which should probably have a lot of really nice tropical varieties) among other things. either way, i should probably get on looking for travel opportunities very soon. things are already pretty much sold out for chinese new year (which we get two days off for in the first week of feb hehe) but we get a week of for "spring" break and then another week before finals and another week before most of us leave after we're done with all our finals. good times.
in conclusion, i was waiting at a bus stop after class with about four other people. as soon as the bus came down the road towards us, two things came quickly along with it: a mob of people to take the bus, and the unmistakable odor of singaporeans...its really quite unfortunate to have to be subjected to this, but i'll put it under the category of occupational hazard by studying here. Cheers!
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