*insert loud, frustrated, utterly-surprised-at-incompetence screams here*

This freaking university. I am often surprised by their lack of competence, but today’s adventures took the cake.

I, being who I am, constantly check the class schedules on a daily basis to make sure nothing’s changed and that everything is still go for my schedule next semester. Up until this point, nothing has been dramatically changed on me. Note the “up until this point.”

So today, I nonchalantly check the class schedules during my little break between geography and philosophy, as I always do. But today, I noticed there was a difference—every single philosophy class’s times and days were switched around. Confused, I refreshed the page several times to make sure there wasn’t mistake. There wasn’t—the philosophy schedule had completely changed. Frantically, I check to see where these new time slots fit in with my previously secure schedule.

Now let’s pause here and reason for a moment. Suppose you’re head of the registrar’s office at a university and are in charge of scheduling time slots for classes. It would make sense, don’t you think, to schedule classes that may conflict for people who have double majors at different times than each other, right? An example of this would be people majoring in, say, microbiology and regular biology. So it would make sense, wouldn’t you say, to schedule psychology and philosophy classes, with a double major of psychology and philosophy being rather common, at different times, correct?

Apparently, this did not occur to whoever designed the new philosophy schedule. The two philosophy classes required for the minor (and thus the major) are scheduled at the exact same time as two psychology classes that are not offered at any other time. Brilliant move, U of I. Brilliant move. What also changed is the statistics schedule, but luckily, this changed for the better. At least, for the moment.

After doing some investigating, I discovered that this genius revision of the schedule so close to registration was due to the rather large mistake by the registrar’s office of putting up last spring’s schedule instead of the new one and assuming that all the departments would realize this and adjust—in due time, before the schedule became available to students—their classes accordingly.

No.

So after rambling on for about four too many paragraphs, the short message is this: recheck your schedules if you’ve already got them charted out, and don’t freaking trust this university.

That is all. I am angry.