Thursday February 5th 2009

We woke up at 6am to begin the hectic day of registration. It consisted of waiting in painfully long lines, arguing with Deans, and getting different stamps of approval. It made me really realize how easy we have it at MSU. Everything there is done electronically – and if we can’t take a class, the computer simply tells us so. Here, we first had to wait in a line for about two hours just to receive a piece of paper with our name on it. Then we had to talk with each of our professors about why we wanted to take the class, and get their stamps of approval. THEN we had to wait in another ridiculously long line to get our “financial approval stamp”, THEN another line to talk to a counselor about classes overlapping, THEN another line to get a stamp from the Dean, THEN wait in another line for our photo IDs, THEN another line to register for our emails and passwords, THEN another line for “computer orientation” to be taught how to use a computer (ummmm…). The whole process took up the entire day, and really tested my patience. I know I’ll have much more respect for MSU’s online registration process when I return though.