Oh, I was a knave at the dawning of the day,
Come Lord, and tell it unto me,
But the sun's gone down and the Kind has lost his crown,
Now it lies on the bed of the sea ..
Come Lord, and tell it unto me,
But the sun's gone down and the Kind has lost his crown,
Now it lies on the bed of the sea ..
Well, I just finished the stressful hell that comes about once a year that is module enrollment for university. This invariably means an hour of two of refreshing the webpage, going painstakingly through each step, checking for timetable clashes, fine print about pre-requisites, all of which will ultimately end in crushing disappointment.
True module enrollment success is like getting to the front row of some major public event: You camp outside it until the doors open. If like me, and so many many others, this chance is missed, you begin the battle against your internet connection, more web traffic than is seemingly possible and a list with at least 2 modules labelled "FULL" before you've even caught your breath.
This mindset is universal; facebook is basically dominated with people lamenting the lack of module choice or just berating the system. The question of how a module can become full is beyond me. I know now of numerous people who have missed out on their first choices purely because the webpage is inaccessible due to traffic. This then leads to having to pick choices which you crossed off in your head as "will never pick this ever", because there's nothing else left. And we pay for this.
It's not even worth the tears. But unfortunately, it has to be, lest you end up missing everything and not getting back into uni. Unless some kind of improved system is developed, not least for the University of Leeds, people are gonna be even less than peachy than now when they start paying £9000 for modules they don't want.
