2009-11-16 @ 4:39 AM
I just wanted to enroll
...why did they have to send me to hell just to do it?
I have the money, if thats what they need.
I have the patience to walk thousands of steps between JFH and the Admin building.
I have people (rare occurence) with me to talk to as I wait for the whole day just to fix a few sheets of paid paper.
But why let me experience that much trouble???
My enrollment adventure started last week`s thursday (Oct. 12). Being a lost irregular sheep, I am expected to do things my own way, among other things. My batchmates already have their papers settled, while I still need to plunge down into the chaotic manual enrollment to get myself signed in for this sem.
The day ended with a disappointing `come again on saturday`, only because my subjects were mostly for freshmen and sophomores...and this spelled incredibly bad news, because Saturday is Hell day.
Saturday came. I arrived early (7am) but I had to wait for the processing to start at 8am. Im one of the first to get in line, but for some fantastic bad luck, I had to wait for the damned registration form for good 4 hours (almost 5 actually). Screw the crappy Lasalle enrollment encoding systems!
That`s not all. Apparently, one of my applied subjects got closed (no more slots available) and that subject happened to be Major. Its an incredibly big deal, since losing a valuable Major subject this sem would affect my entire stay at Lasalle.
So I had to repeat almost the entire process: fall in line for the subject database, run to JFH for paper-signing, run back to admin building and fall in line (again) for the validation of added subjects, then fall in line (AGAIN) to get the final registration form.
The whole process took me a the whole saturday and the whole today (I didnt attend the classes today just for the whole thing). And you know what, even after all that has happened, I still havent got my registration form. Which means, since i have to fall in line (A-G-A-I-N) tommorow to get it, chances are, I wont be able to attend classes for tommorow too.
Really, if I am in UP and finding myself in that situation, I am likely to call for a rally.
Really, the people around me are just as pissed. Annoyed faces, thick-faced, singit people. I could hear them all. But they were too afraid to do anything.
And REALLY, why let us experience this kind of difficulty of enrolling while we are more than obliged to pay them and experience their `Lasallian Pride.`
I hope I wont experience the same freaking hell next semester. Being an irregular student is hard enough...add this one up, and lo, IDUWANNASTADYENIMO.
The quality of an educational institution need not be only based on the academic legacy they provide...they should also open their eyes to what the students truly experience.
- a tired-and-annoyed melancholic dreamer
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