Class Registration

We knew it was going to be bad. Last week, when the juniors registered for classes, the web server hosting the ASP.NET campus web site completely died. It couldn't handle the volume of requests that it was getting. I actually could discern quite abit about the configuration of the web site from the numerous error messages I would recieve. Jenzabar, the programming company that produceed the software for the my.gcc website, has done its best to hide the platform that thier product runs on by changing the file name extention on the pages to .jnz and not using many built-in server control type items, that I can tell. (But, the big yellow error screens just SCREAM ASP.net. So much for hiding the server type) Then, also, they don't use page redirects to get to different parts of the site - all of the information is passed through postbacks, so to go back, you have to find the link somewhere on the page that works, because the back button doesn't work. Very annoying Oh Well. Good example of how not to program a large data-driven web application that lots of people will use.

Well, they did manage to fix some of the bugs from last week and get the software working, sort of. It at least did not crash. It was just slow. Praise the Lord, I got into the classes that I needed to. The schedule is not as nice as this semester's, but it will work. My classes are kind of spread out all over on MWF, and I have a 1:00 and a 2:30 on TR. It'll work, but I would have preferred some other setup. The only things I didn't get into were the preferred sections for my two civ classes (Civ Lit and Modern Civ). I wanted to get a 9:00 -> that was full, so the 8:00 will have to do. That just gives me an hour that I will no doubt waste every morning, but oh well. Then, I would have preferred an earlier class than the 2:45, but its just as well. I have a long morning on TR to get stuff accomplished (Ha Ha - waste time I mean - at least that is what it will come to.)
I am also taking Spec Mind (another civ) over intersession. This means that, with the three civs I will have already taken, I will be done with all of the required Civilization series of courses by the end of Sophomore year. Yay! Usually, you take one per semester until the end of junior year. More room for engineering classes! Yippee!

Well, I have a linear circuits exam in the morning, a Numerical methods exam on tuesday, and a discrete mathematics exam on next friday. Then Thanksgiving Break! It is almost here - the break will be here, over, and done with before I know it. Luckily, though, after break I only have one more exam until finals. That's at least two weeks in a row without an exam! How did I ever get so lucky?

Sorry for this post that is full of infomration that is of no consequence to any save myself at the present time. Well, good evening, and good night, dear readers, and have yourself a wonderful thurday evening.

Jeremy