<p>Its been may 9th for a while now...where is my class of 2009 website?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/uchi/admissions/%5B/url%5D">http://www.uchicago.edu/uchi/admissions/</a></p>
<p>It now says May 16. Wow, Chicago really knows how to blatantly disregard their own deadlines.</p>
<p>what the hell, all the other colleges already have orgies and stuff planned and happening. I feel like they don't care about us anymore. This is disappointing.</p>
<p>that's weird; when i checked the link, it still said that the site would be up on may 9th. of course, its not actually up, but regardless, that's strange.</p>
<p>edit: nevermind, i hit refresh, and now it says may 16.</p>
<p>I sent them an email, I'll post any reply here.</p>
<p>I think it might be partially due to the fact that the site lists an "Interim program coordinator." Maybe the the old program coordinator knew what was going on more.</p>
<p>bubbloy, come on, i highly doubt they think "eh, screw our students".</p>
<p>if you couldn't gather from the orgies, i was being sarcastic. this is pretty much the same reason i ended up choosing chicago. they did so little to keep me interested, it made me wonder.</p>
<p>Haha, well that was rather disappointing. Too bad they couldn't make the announcement earlier, though. For now, I guess these forums will suffice. ;-)</p>
<p>Haha, bubbloy, I like your reasoning. Seriously--same here, oddly.</p>
<p>Oberlin has school sanctioned orgies...</p>
<p>Here is what I recieved from the CPO:</p>
<p>Hi Otto,</p>
<p>Unfortunately there was a bit of a delay, and the site will be launching next Monday. We're actually finishing up the testing today. Thanks for your patience!</p>
<p>Best,
Anne Ciechanowski
College Programming Assistant</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing, ottothecow. Speaking as someone experienced in the affairs at hand, I have no sympathy for our friend Anne: a site is either designed or not designed; coded or not coded; ready or not ready.</p>
<p>Missing a deadline is extremely sloppy.</p>
<p>"Oberlin has school sanctioned orgies..."</p>
<p>In "my day" Chicago (well kind of) used to...</p>
<p>nah, a site like that has processes involved. It has to go through extensive use testing to make sure it is secure and cant be broken by some silly student who doesnt know what they are doing.</p>
<p>It is not a basic "here is some info" site but one that actually requires a lot of custom coding.</p>
<p>"nah, a site like that has processes involved."</p>
<p>Thanks. As a former coder of PHP and MySQL, I was unaware of this mysterious fact.</p>
<p>"It has to go through extensive use testing to make sure it is secure and cant be broken..."</p>
<p>Hacked, not broken.</p>
<p>"...by some silly student who doesnt know what they are doing."</p>
<p>Yeah, innocent kids just happen to stumble upon code exploits</p>
<p>"It is not a basic 'here is some info' site but one that actually requires a lot of custom coding."</p>
<p><a href="http://hotscripts.com/%5B/url%5D">http://hotscripts.com/</a>, meet ottothecow. ottothecow, <a href="http://hotscripts.com/%5B/url%5D">http://hotscripts.com/</a>.</p>
<p>In response to the article on the orgy: I thank God every day I didn't live in the seventies.</p>
<p>I highly doubt they are using any junky community code site. The site is being built from scratch (or from the remains of the 2008 site) and is going to have a fairly large feature set...</p>
<p>And I am not talking about being hacked (though they must prevent that too), I am simply talking about QA testing to make sure the site WORKS when students show up. It doesnt provide such a good impression when students start exploring the site in a way slightly different than imagined and all of the sudden the site up and dies.</p>
<p>So what exactly will be on the site?</p>
<p>judging from what is currently on the class of 2008 site, everything we need to register for a CNetID, forums, profile pages, information (but who knows what that site actually looked like a year ago.</p>
<p>Doesn't an alarm go off inside of your head that someone else might just know more than you about programming when you search for the correct phraseology for a server error and all you can come up with is, "The site up and dies?"</p>