Ohio University's Class Registration System The class registration system here at Ohio University stinks like month-old pot roast left in the sun. I will briefly describe the scheduling fiasco I recently went through while trying to schedule classes for winter quarter. When I am done, you will have a deeper understanding of one of the most screwed up systems known to mankind.
Image that I, Dave, am trying to schedule six classes, which shall be referred to by letters A-F. I started out with classes, A, B, and C. I got closed out of D initially, but was promised a slot in a new section of D. I was given the times for the new section of D and found that it conflicted with C. Seeing that D was a major class, and C was a non-major class, I dropped C to make room for D. That left me with a grand total of 3 classes, not exactly a full course load. To make up for that, I tried to get into a different section of C, but was closed out. I then tried to get into two totally different classes, E&F, both of which were represented as being open online, but were actually closed. Therefore, I still had 3 classes. I had come to accept the fact that I would have 12 credit hours that quarter and was preparing to go to the new section of D when I received a phone call to the effect that, due to a lack of student response, the new section of D was to be cancelled. I was told that I could *probably* be fit into the original section, but nothing was for sure. Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.
Needless to say, I was rather pissed. Here I was, a student with a double major who wanted to graduate on time in the second quarter of his freshman year with 8 credit hours, an amount that didn't even qualify me as a full time student. Filled with the purest of rage, I marched my skinny little self over to the building shared by the art and visual communications schools to wage war. First stop- the art office. Since I was going to be back in the original section, the class section of C that I was originally in no longer conflicted. However, that class had since closed, and I had to plead my case to the person with the scheduling class to put me back in. Thankfully, due to my supreme negotiating skills, I made it back into the class. Now that I had a grand total of 3 classes, I had to get into D to make my schedule such that I could graduate in four years. I fought the devil himself and, by the grace of Ralph Nader, I was eventually pink-slipped into the class. It's a good thing, too, because in addition to the fact that not getting into the class would have royally screwed up my class sequence over the next four years, had I not gotten in, I would be left with nearly $500 in materials and no way to use them.
That's my story. Quite a bit of crap to wade through to end up with the same classes I started out with, don't you think?
And that is precisely why the course registration system at Ohio University is very very bad. |  |
Upper Respiratory Diseases: Tracheitis In keeping with what might be becoming a trend, I am sick again at the beginning of the quarter. Fall quarter I was blessed with a delightful case of mono and tonsillitis. For a period of three days, my tonsils were touching each other. Heck, I was in so much pain that for a solid week I didn't eat, period, and as a direct result lost about 15 pounds. For winter quarter, I'm not being quite so ambitious and am sticking to a variant of bronchitis- tracheitis. This lovely little number is characterized by a nagging, somewhat severe cough that may last as long as six weeks. It features such benefits as excessive phlegm, coughing to the point of gagging, and coughing fits that wake you up multiple times during the course of a night's sleep. One thing I've really been enjoying is not being able to talk continuously for more than a couple minutes without exploding into a coughing fit- something that's guaranteed to make any class discussion an adventure. All considered, it is a splended ailment to be sure.
In accition to the wonderful physical benefits of tracheitis, there are actually some wonderful medicinal benefits. When diagnosed, I was given a grand total of three different medications. For general treatment, I was allowed to purchase a $47 Azmacort inhaler. For a decongestant during the day, I was given Benzonatate. The coup de gras, however, was the night time decongestant and cough supressant- Guiatuss AC. This stuff is akin to NyQuil, only it's stronger and has codeine in it. Joyful joyful [meds] we adore thee...
But alas, not all things that come along with this pox is for the better. For example, I could be sick for as little as another week. This simply won't do! I prefer to be sick for a minimum of six weeks, and longer if possible. Also, when my cough goes away, I should be able to return to my running as usual. WHAT THE HELL!?!?! There's a reason I got sick in the first place, and it *wasn't* so I could get better and start running again. I mean really, what are our modern pathogens coming too? |
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Bands That Suck, Bands That Don't Suck This isn't so much a review as it is a brief list of band which I think suck, and bands which I think totall kick ass. I know many, if not most of our readers will disagree with some of my choices, but hey- it's my site and my music taste is infinitely better than every other person's, so if you don't like it that's just because you're an idiot and don't know what you're talking about and you can just piss off at a leisurely pace. And now for the show...
BANDS/RECORDING ARTISTS THAT SUCK:
1. Rush
2. Guns 'n' Roses
3. AC/DC
4. Oasis
5. Of A Revolution (O.A.R.)
6. Sum 41
7. Any boy band ever
8. Hanson
9. Third Eye Blind
10. Puff Daddy
11. Cherry Poppin' Daddies
12. Brian Setzer
13. Van Halen
14. Metallica
15. Eminem
16. Any form of French rap
17. Eiffel 65
18. Garth Brooks (and by process of being the same person, Chris Gaines)
19. Nelly
20. Smashmouth
21. Everclear
22. Kid Rock
23. ICP
24. Ricky Martin
25. Miriah Carey
BANDS/RECORDING ARTISTS THAT TOTALLY KICK ASS:
1. Blind Melon
2. Nirvana
3. Pearl Jam
4. Toadies
5. Stone Temple Pilots
6. Unified Theory
7. Soundgarden
8. 311
9. Silverchair (first album, anyway)
10. KMFDM
12. Wynton Marsalis
13. Lennie Kravitz
14. Rage Against The Machine
15. Led Zepplin
15. Ozomatli
16. Counting Crows
17. Jamiroquai
18. Portishead
19. Cake
20. Tool
21. Nine Inch Nails
22. Jimi Hendrix
23. Live
24. Ten Foot Pole
25. Sponge |
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