Telebears Fun
July 29, 1999
Telebears Fun
First off, an update on my midterm: YAY I got an A... but I messed
up a horribly easy problem... for those of you interested, here's the
part of the problem I messed up, see if you can find the error (duh.)
[((3)^(1/2))/2]^(2) = 9/4
Hee hee. Okay, that was bad. Anyway, the point of this update is
signing up for classes. At Berkeley, we have a telephone-in system called
"Telebears." To sign up for classes, you have to wait for your
Telebears appointment time for phase I and phase II,
and then dial in the classes you want. (In Phase I, you can sign up
for 10 units of classes, and then for Phase II, you can sign up for
the rest)
Sounds very convient, but the pitfall of that system is that if you
have a bad appointment time, you're jipped. While their ranking
system for telebears on paper seems fair, when you personally
don't get into a class
because of a bad telebears time, everything about the system seems
wrong. Right now, I'm in the "This is totally unfair" stage.
This is their ranking system:
In order of priority:
Disabled Students and Athletes
Seniors
Transfer Students
Juniors
Freshmen
Sophmore
And for those of you who weren't paying attention, guess what
grade I'm in? So yeah, I had a bad telebears time for Phase I and
Phase II. So now, I'm on the wait list for two out of four classes.
I'll probably get into these classes, but the problem is that I have
to be enrolled in more than 13.5 units if I want to keep my
financial aide money. If I'm not confirmed for that many units by
the third week of school, I'll have to send back my loan money!!!
That is so royally messed up. Right now I've only confirmed 8.5 units,
so I could possibly be kissing my loan check good-bye. Not to
mention that if I don't get into my history class, I could be kissing
my major requirment deadline good-bye as well. (I have to take
history before I can declare to get into my intended major, political
science.)
Ahh yes, public schools and the way everything is limited. If they
knew that seven hundred people wanted to take history, why do they
only have six hundred seats? And if they knew that no one was interested
in math 54 with computers, why must they take up resources for that
many seats when so many more people would be happier if they just
added more seats to regular math 54? I just have to ask this question,
and those of you who are in private colleges can tell me the answer:
do you guys go through this kind of headache when you're signing up
for classes?
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