Dumb dumb NTU!

Subject registration. Ahhhhh...The time when all NTU students will be jittery and scared.

Being the old-fashioned school Pulau NTU is, students add subjects for their next semester via "Fastest Fingers First"! Nooo..We do not use the bidding system like all the other civilised and modern school.

Therefore, whether you get the subjects you want will depend on a) your internet connection and b) how fast you finger is. Oh and!

AND! They actually restrict the core subjects that you can do! This means that, they only allow certain people to add some subjects per semester. And if you do not belong to the group of certain people, you can't add!

For example, I wanted to add AB311 this semester! But I can't! Why? Because AB311 is only for people in HRC, THM and Marketing! Erm...Dumb?! There's more!

Here's what I got -

The game of fastest fingers and "chosen one" is only applicable for core subjects!

For electives, you have to be on the waitlist!

Add the electives you want to take next semester, rank them according to preference and then START PRAYING! Because electives will be allocated to you based on balloting!

If you are really really really (x mazillion) lucky, you might get your first choice! If you are (only) really really lucky, you might not get your first choice but one of the other 4 choices. Well, if you are unlucky (like I am last semester), you don't get any!

Here's my waitlist -

Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Personality Psychology and Abnormal Psychology.

This semester (my 2nd last one before graduation), I have to take 3 electives! 2 to clear my Psychology minor and 1 to satisfy the AUs system. So, everyone! Please. Pray. For. Me. If I don't get any electives this coming semester, I'm screwed.

So, send lucky charms this way!

This is really crappy. What happened to, "You can plan your own timetable" ? And especially since we are final year students, you thought they will cut us some slack and just take away the rules and stuff. I mean, we ARE final year students, so we need to clear all our electives and cores before we graduate! So hello?! A little help here?!

While SMU students are complaining about turning into a mugger school, here in Pulau NTU, we are just unhappy about our crappy school system.

Now, don't even get me started about NTU's internship allocation system. That will be another story for another time.

WAKE UP, NTU! What the hell are you doing?!

*takes in deep breath*

Anyways, all you undergraduates-to-be, don't come to NTU unless you think you have exceptional luck.