Class Registration

This is going to be a rant. But it's my blog and I'll rant if I want to. I had a wonderful time, as I do every semester, registering for next semester's classes.

Here at Purdue we get certain time slots for signing up for classes, based on year in school and (maybe?) academic achievement. Which means if you're lucky enough to get an early time slot, then you might get the classes you want for the next semester. As if this isn't a problem enough, at the beginning of every time slot, everyone else that shares your time is furiously clicking the refresh button on their browser to try to log in and get their classes before you. Is it not possible to enter your schedule beforehand and then have some computer program enter you into classes based on class standing/grades? Apparently not, Purdue would rather have us have an arbitrary contest over the internet. Maybe some Purdue administrator is getting a laugh out of it.