Apr

22

When I thought I was done with being done…

Filed Under Babbling, School 

So just when you thought you had your last graduation post from me about ten days back, even more shit hit the fan. Really.

For folks that aren’t familiar with UCF and might read this, when you’re a business major there’s one class you have to take in your last semester called Capstone. You can’t register for it like a normal class. When class registration opens up for you at your normal appointment time, you need to file your intent to graduate after registering for classes. Then, a few weeks later on a specific day, you have either an early registration time (9am) or a regular registration time (4pm). You register for it, and that’s that.

For me, my regular registration was on March 27th, and that meant my Capstone registration was at 4pm. I was on campus yesterday when I was supposed to register, so I went to the business computer lab. It was a stone’s throw away from the Undergrad Advising Office, so if I had to, I could throw a stone at them for messing something up. I sign onto the lab computer and go through all of the motions. And then, as I click “finish” on my registration?

Error: Department Consent Required. You must obtain permission to take this class. If you have a permission number, click Return to Step 1, click the class link, enter the number and resubmit

Seriously? You’ve got to be kidding me.

My friend Jennifer who was trying to get into the same section as I was, she had the same error message. So seeing we were both trying to register at the same time, we went over to the office and tell them what’s going on. I call our friend Nick and he got the same error message. While we’re at the office, an advisor whom I know took a little time out of her day and pushed back an appointment to try to help me (thank you Lisa, if you ever stumble across this), and her thought was that it was because I’m a double degree. She was the fourth advisor to go over my twin audits and said the same thing everyone else said: I’m good to go. Oh really? Geez. So why can’t I register?

Seeing I knew of two other folks with the same error, I went back to the lab and I printed up the error message and I wrote down the section number that I was trying to register for and handed it to the Peer Advisor. “Make a photocopy of this. There are three people getting this same message for this section. You might want to look into it.” Sure, I was a bit snarky with that, but I’m sorry: I’ve been waiting for three weeks for this registration and I’ve been given three different go aheads. I wasn’t going to take it.

So I went in and took my Ethics final after ranting for a good half hour and studying with Jennifer and Cory for it. And after getting out, I got a text from Jennifer that she had forwarded me an e-mail from an advisor:

There appears to be a problem with the discussion section you have selected, as we have attempted to enroll you in the class numbers you had attempted this afternoon and are receiving the error Department Consent Required. Only one student has been able to enroll in this specific lab section. Your information has been sent to our department scheduler for review. I would recommend trying again in the morning after 9am to see if any results have changed since it was after 5pm that she received the email.

Well, that being said, I feel like the paper I made the Peer Advisor take might have been an additional stone in their problem wall. It helped alleviate my concerns of other students registering and locking me out of the class.

So this morning, at about 9:30, I logged back on and attempted to re-register. Success. And hopefully this is the very last problem that I have to deal with from the college at all.

I can now succinctly and clearly say that I will be done and walking August 2nd. No matter what.

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    Thanks for stopping by, folks! My name is Adam J. Cohen, and I'm a guitarist/songwriter in Champaign, IL, recently relocated from Orlando, FL where I'm a UCF grad. Here, you'll find vignettes on my life, setlists and show reviews, and whatever else crosses my mind. Enjoy!