August 4th Class Madness

<p>Haha yeah. Good luck. Just found out my session expired</p>

<p>I cant even load the Student Center inside SIS…</p>

<p>EDIT: I’m fairly certain SIS is undergoing the update now. Will probably take a few more hours so check in the early morning.</p>

<p>It’s working now…</p>

<p>Damn if I knew how to add myself to the waitlist I would’ve done it a long time ago :x Now I’m spot 19</p>

<p>Yea it working now, I’ve been placed on waitlists for some though. Now I’m figuring out how to get in closed classes…</p>

<p>How do you get into closed classes? Do they just put you on the waitlist?</p>

<p>I second Opheliarose’s question.</p>

<p>Also, how probable is it that I get enrolled in a class consisting of 40 students, and I’m 13th on the waitlist? Highly improbable…right?</p>

<p>from what I can see, closed classes don’t have a waitlist option, so I don’t think its possible atm to enroll in them. I’m curious when they open up for waitlists though.</p>

<p>so this may be a dumb question but how do you know what number you are on the waitlist. I went through all the steps in getting on a class waitlist, and the top of the screen says saved. The classes I have in my enrollment requests dont say anything about where I am on the waitlist. : (</p>

<p>When you confirm your waitlist, it should say what position you are. And when you look at your schedule list, it’ll say what number you are above the class.</p>

<p>lovely, you gotta officially enroll in the waitlist course. Just adding a waitlisted course into your request doesn’t add you onto the list.</p>

<p>Hah. First semester of SIS, I attended an advanced engineering class all the way to the first test. When the test got handed back, there was a note saying “See me, I don’t think you’re enrolled in this class…??”. I freaked at the “see me”. Oh, and I got a 92 on the test.
Long story short, I added it to my requests, never submitted it. Never got credit for the class…</p>

<p>Lame!!! Haha. Did you at least get a rec from the prof??</p>

<p>Actually I used him as a faculty contact/rec for two jobs lol. Even M.L. wanted to give me credit for the class, but SIS refused so I “dropped” the course. UGGGHHHH</p>

<p>hey i have a question. on my schedule on thursdays i will have 3 back to back discussions. soc from 12-12:50, reli from 1-1:50, and swag from 2-2:50. i was wondering if that is just crazy to have them all back to back or would it be manageable?</p>

<p>It’s fine as long as you can eat lunch before them.</p>

<p>okay, what exactly happens in discussion classes anyways? and i could change the reli discussion to 6-6:50. do you think that would be better or should i just keep it how it is?</p>

<p>I hate evening discussions but maybe they would be your thing. You have a TA who makes you do various assignments – talk, read, write small papers, write large papers, give presentations, whatever their little heart desires you do because they give you your grade. Or you ignore and do poorly. Which is what I always did. I hated those things… Hence being a math major!! ;)</p>

<p>I also hate doing things later, because i like feeling like i got everything done earlier in the day. so you think it’s a wise idea to switch one of the discussions to later instead of having 3 in a row? so i don’t die or get burnt out. </p>

<p>so you’re saying in discussion, the TA makes you do work for the class while the professor just gives you the information?</p>

<p>Yes the work you do is generally in discussion - the lecture with the professor is… lecture… tests too.</p>

<p>I think if you switch one later, you’ll proly end up neglecting it. But it would give you time to do things last minute. If you have 3 in a row you’ll probably go to all of them (maybe skip the last one now and then). I dunno it’s really a choice you have to make yourself. You could try it one day and switch if you don’t like it. But those things end up bothering you halfway through the semester not the first week and you can’t switch really after the first week… So it’s up to you!</p>

<p>i think i’ll switch to the later one, and then see during that first week if i think i could handle it all being back to back after i determine how the TA’s are and their level of difficulty. i guess you can’t get your cake and eat it too? i can suck up having one late class, since i managed not to have class on friday. :)</p>