So, spring registration opened tonight for seniors. At 9:00 PM on the dot, I was hitting “Refresh” like a madwoman to get into the system and into the classes I want to take. I had awful flashbacks of trying to register via phone for UT.<\/p>\n
“Welcome to TEX, the telephone enrollment exchange for the University of Texas at Austin. TEX is currently scheduling classes for the…………<\/p>\n
SPRING………<\/p>\n
semester, nineteen……….<\/p>\n
ninety-two.”<\/p>\n
TEX would always tell me that the section I wanted was full. “This class was not added. The section you requested was full.” I hated TEX. TEX always ended his calls with, “Good-bye, and good luck.” Too bad he didn’t wish me luck before<\/b> I tried to register. <\/p>\n
So anyway, I was freaking out, sweating bullets, sure that I wouldn’t be able to make it into the classes that I want and need. Got in! Clicked madly! Entered course numbers and section numbers! Hit “Add”! Got into everything I wanted!<\/p>\n
90 minutes later, I checked on those classes. They’re still, at most, 1\/3 full. I think I might have been just a wee bit obsessive about the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Also, on a plus note, I heard back from the head of my department, and one of my transfer credits will count for what looked to me to be a most odious course:<\/p>\n
This course introduces students to the designs, uses, and limitation of communication research. Traditional statistical methods (e.g., correlations, t-tests, ANOVA) are covered as well as more recent, qualitative approaches (e.g., narrative, self-reflexive, auto\/biography,) in order to provide students with a well-rounded insight into the various methodological perspectives that currently govern research in the field of communication. Students will collect and analyze data for a final research project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dodged a bullet on that one! The course description is so dry that just reading it makes me thirsty.<\/p>\n
Cross fingers – after spring, if I get portfolio credit for what I’m aiming for, I’ll only have 15 hours to go.<\/p>\n
Also, I’m sick and exceedingly grumpy. I’m sure my husband is hoping it turns into laryngitis so he doesn’t have to listen to me grouse anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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