Fun with online reg
Jul. 28th, 2009 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spoon9001So, Monday, class registration with my comm. college went live. It's a 24-hour system, so that basically translates to, "At the stroke of midnight, reg goes live." I had every intention of registering for my classes at about 2 in the morning, in particular because 2 of the 4 classes I have left to take at RCC are graduation requirements, which means that everyone and their mother tries to take them, especially in the Fall session. WELL, thanks to getting distracted by Cory (more on that later), I forgot to. XD It was close to 3:30 in the morning, I'd turned the computer off and was about fire up FFXII when I remembered about classes. And calling in my Rx refill. And something else. But whatever. I'd survive if I did it in the morning/afternoon.
Woke up and got online, trying to register 3 of my classes. What a surprise: The school's server was lagging like a snail in a salt pit. After about a half hour, I was able to LOG IN, but after another 2 hours, I was never able to search and register my classes. I decided to take a break and get something to eat, pick up my drugs, and, fuck it, run to Joann's and buy some more fabric for Hayvn. I'm dressed, I'm out, I doubt I'll get into the server.
Midnight rolled around, and I figured I'd give it another shot. Well, it's loading slowly but there aren't any time-outs or disconnections, and I'm not getting locked out due to capacity issues. I finally get to the Search/Reg screen and pick out the most important class, Health Science. Absolutely NOBODY had registered for ANY of the classes available. o_O Same thing with Anthropology, and my Speech class of choice. I had to have been reading it wrong... As I slowly moved on to registering and paying, I saw the Availability slots SLOWLY. SLOOOOOOOOOOOWLY. being whittled down.
Translation: The server crashed and NOBODY got in all day. XD It was amazing.
Oh, and apparently class units are like, $9 now. o_O They were in the $20 range for a while.
Woke up and got online, trying to register 3 of my classes. What a surprise: The school's server was lagging like a snail in a salt pit. After about a half hour, I was able to LOG IN, but after another 2 hours, I was never able to search and register my classes. I decided to take a break and get something to eat, pick up my drugs, and, fuck it, run to Joann's and buy some more fabric for Hayvn. I'm dressed, I'm out, I doubt I'll get into the server.
Midnight rolled around, and I figured I'd give it another shot. Well, it's loading slowly but there aren't any time-outs or disconnections, and I'm not getting locked out due to capacity issues. I finally get to the Search/Reg screen and pick out the most important class, Health Science. Absolutely NOBODY had registered for ANY of the classes available. o_O Same thing with Anthropology, and my Speech class of choice. I had to have been reading it wrong... As I slowly moved on to registering and paying, I saw the Availability slots SLOWLY. SLOOOOOOOOOOOWLY. being whittled down.
Translation: The server crashed and NOBODY got in all day. XD It was amazing.
Oh, and apparently class units are like, $9 now. o_O They were in the $20 range for a while.
