Scheduling \’ske-jül-iŋ\ Vb : to waste time preparing something that you know will not work.

Oh, how joyful is that time of year when you need to register your university schedule! It’s that time of year when you realize how much you’ve just spent in scholarship fees — and how close the time is when you need to pay it all again. Fear not, however! It’s also that time when you get to pick the courses you would like most. Right. Well so it’s supposed to be.

The problem with this is that I am still missing 2 courses due to administrative issues…

What happens at Université de Moncton is that all second-year students get to register their classes at 7:00 AM one day, and all the first year students get to register at the same time the next day. For some reason an important number of 2nd graders got their courses backwards the year before and need to take first year courses in order to meet all the requirements for med school. That’s all very fine and well, but that also means that it saturates the courses first graders need to take, resulting in lots of frustration and anger.

Add to that the general incompetence of a powerless administrative bureaucracy, and you get a system that doesn’t work and a system that relies on top decision makers to micromanage each student’s affairs…

But enough on that. The administration will fix everything up so I can focus on my next post!