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Class Scheduling
Why are 90% of lectures scheduled to start at 8:30 or 9:30? I mean, there are lots of other hours available. Look at 11:30. That's a nice hour. Nothing wrong with that hour at all. But nooooo, SFU is absolutely fucking adamant that the maximum possible number of lectures must be crammed into the first two hours of every day. For serious.
The upshot? I quit my job in order to take a "hard" semester full of 5 difficult courses... and only ended up getting 3. Because unless they suddenly add Dance 101 as a science pre-requisite, all the classes I need conflict with one another. Out of a list of fifteen classes that I have available to take towards my major, TEN of them have lectures starting at 8:30 or 9:30, and two of the remaining have lectures starting at 10:30. What the hell is wrong with these people? Are they stupid?
And let's not get started on what this does to the transit system. Ever tried catching the bus to school for an 8:30 class? The busses fill up in the first two or three stops, leaving everyone after that standing at the bus stop, with nothing to do but yell ineffectually at the bus driver as he drives by helplessly. It's not the bus driver's fault! It's the university's! Becuase they figured it would be an AWESOME idea to make sure that in a commuter school, everybody has to arrive ALL AT ONCE.
Retards! It's ironic that they run an educational institution.
Not that it's all bad, mind. It'll be nice to have an easy semester, with no work and only 3 classes. Might help my GPA, and de-stress me a little. But seriously. Is there a law that lectures are for the early morning, and that labs and tutorials are for the afternoon? They can't spread that shit out? They don't WANT the extra two-class's worth of money I was fully ready to pony up?
I'm going to go throw some fruit at the Dean's window, now. If you don't hear from me again, assume I've been taken down my his elite personal guard.
The upshot? I quit my job in order to take a "hard" semester full of 5 difficult courses... and only ended up getting 3. Because unless they suddenly add Dance 101 as a science pre-requisite, all the classes I need conflict with one another. Out of a list of fifteen classes that I have available to take towards my major, TEN of them have lectures starting at 8:30 or 9:30, and two of the remaining have lectures starting at 10:30. What the hell is wrong with these people? Are they stupid?
And let's not get started on what this does to the transit system. Ever tried catching the bus to school for an 8:30 class? The busses fill up in the first two or three stops, leaving everyone after that standing at the bus stop, with nothing to do but yell ineffectually at the bus driver as he drives by helplessly. It's not the bus driver's fault! It's the university's! Becuase they figured it would be an AWESOME idea to make sure that in a commuter school, everybody has to arrive ALL AT ONCE.
Retards! It's ironic that they run an educational institution.
Not that it's all bad, mind. It'll be nice to have an easy semester, with no work and only 3 classes. Might help my GPA, and de-stress me a little. But seriously. Is there a law that lectures are for the early morning, and that labs and tutorials are for the afternoon? They can't spread that shit out? They don't WANT the extra two-class's worth of money I was fully ready to pony up?
I'm going to go throw some fruit at the Dean's window, now. If you don't hear from me again, assume I've been taken down my his elite personal guard.
Comments
I personally dont see anything wrong with Wednesday or Thursday. Those are good days too imo.
:/
Having had to go to 8:30 classes many a time before now, I have to say that in my particular case I was lucky to be near the Commercial skytrain and to make it to the 145 at like 7:45 AM.
Later on when I had a little more flexibility I always tried to get classes that WEREN'T at 8:30 just to keep myself off the transit crush. :)
Good luck in all your classes, though... even at 8:30 AM.