I've never experienced this much frustration in my life as I do now. All the way up to now, its been pretty smoothsailing. You didn't get to choose much what you studied in the past. Suddenly, you have many choices. A potentially life-changing experience to try something you've always wanted. You think its time to rejoice?
Think again. Its actually a smokescreen. The choices available to you are equally few, only lousier, more irrelevant and in many cases, the total opposite of what you really want to study. What is the point of giving us 10000 modules, if you are going to lock all of them up with 0 vacancies anyway? You might as well give us the most obscure modules, tell us to suck it up and shut down the whole system because it is irrelevant and really a waste of bandwidth.
Its even more frustrating when your core timetable is poorly planned. My wednesday tutorial slot happens to be sitting in the middle of every single module in the sciences section, effectively freezing me out of any choices in science and technology. Which genius planned this? Couldn't you have exercised some foresight? I have 9 AUs to fill in Sciences. If you want to do this, can you exempt me from filling those AUs then?
In addition, why are the seniors allowed to fight for the same modules as the freshies and bid first when the freshies have the most limited choices? We should be allowed to bid first for the modules, because we can't do most of the higher modules due to pre-reqs we can't meet if we can't even get the basic courses in the first place! Its a stupid vicious cycle!
Couldn't NTU have planned more classes for basic modules and less for advanced ones, since few will ever scale the top echolons of those higher up courses?
STARS. A nightmare that will continue to plague NTU students for years on end.
Think again. Its actually a smokescreen. The choices available to you are equally few, only lousier, more irrelevant and in many cases, the total opposite of what you really want to study. What is the point of giving us 10000 modules, if you are going to lock all of them up with 0 vacancies anyway? You might as well give us the most obscure modules, tell us to suck it up and shut down the whole system because it is irrelevant and really a waste of bandwidth.
Its even more frustrating when your core timetable is poorly planned. My wednesday tutorial slot happens to be sitting in the middle of every single module in the sciences section, effectively freezing me out of any choices in science and technology. Which genius planned this? Couldn't you have exercised some foresight? I have 9 AUs to fill in Sciences. If you want to do this, can you exempt me from filling those AUs then?
In addition, why are the seniors allowed to fight for the same modules as the freshies and bid first when the freshies have the most limited choices? We should be allowed to bid first for the modules, because we can't do most of the higher modules due to pre-reqs we can't meet if we can't even get the basic courses in the first place! Its a stupid vicious cycle!
Couldn't NTU have planned more classes for basic modules and less for advanced ones, since few will ever scale the top echolons of those higher up courses?
STARS. A nightmare that will continue to plague NTU students for years on end.