I am in one of those moods, watch it. If you get an e-mail from me filled with complaints, you probably deserve it. If not, then I think you might be in the clear. I am on an e-mailing rampage, all going in one particular direction – my school. Every semester, it is the same story: web registration begins and those who must wait till day two because of the placement of the last name in this hierarchical system they have created, we know it as the alphabet, get *%@!ed from behind. Why? Because our registration system, though supposedly technologically advanced cause it's on the 'web,' is pretty far from advanced and always leaves us feeling stressed and angry. This school, and the program I am in especially, creates one section for practically every course knowing damned well the class is already overcrowded and most all of the 45-50 students will be wanting/needing the class, after all they are kinda required to graduate. So instead of creating more sections, and I know what you are thinking, perhaps they don't have the class space/money/teachers to do it – total bullshit, I fell for that the first year. Instead they raise the class size from 45 to about 80 for the new year coming in, hire new teachers and create new classrooms for this booming young crowd, but leave us – the ones who have worked so hard and fought through registrations and fought to squeeze ourselves into the barely visible space in required courses for the last couple of years, are once again, being forced to challenge the system we have so painstakingly placed ourselves into. I registered approx. one and one half hours after registration started on the second day and every single course required of me to take is full/closed. My only option is to put myself on a waitlist that will not really guarantee anything. I have been to a couple of schools in my day, schools with far larger class sizes (in the hundreds) and far less sophistication and money – yet registration was always as easy as pie and I can never recall having one issue with getting into a course. Bottom line people, if I pay 12-15G a year to attend a school which I worked so hard to get into, moved to another country for, a school supposedly holding a reputation to be admired, then I, WE MUST be guranteed spots in the classes that are required for us to take for graduation. Why is this so difficult to understand? Why is this NOT being done?

My ranting may get me nowhere, but at least it makes me feel a little less bad. Cover the kids eyes cause I am gonna curse: fuck you Emily Carr Institute and your bullshit, get your shit together and make your students happy for once. Thank you.