Registrar Cockblocks Schedulizer
The Registrar’s office has apparently made it impossible for Schedulizer to function, or something.When you log in to the Schedge, the entreating missive at left comes up and explains that “Cornell has made it prohibitively difficult for us to maintain accurate course information.” And even though the good peeps over at Schedulizer (holla back, Ross) have tried their darndest to work with the Registrar to resolve this timely and adequately, “the Registrar has been unresponsive.” The Registrar so tied up in its own red tape that any soul brave enough to venture into cubicle-y abyss comes out with empty answers and the nagging desire to set Day Hall on fire? Unheard of. It seems this whole shebang is due to the switch to the decidedly sucky PeopleSoft, which (not unlike many a beer goggled hook-up) appears pretty and wholesome and kinda cute but in reality sucks giant monkey balls.
This makes times quite trying for we students who did not write down our schedules before 1:30am the night before the first day of classes. And since some unnamed students did not get all the classes they wanted and a bag of potato chips in PreEnroll, some unnamed students are kinda pissed off. And so this colors their decision to send what would normally be a very peaceable and professional email to the evil-sounding UnivRegistrar@cornell.edu. After the jump, the offending email.
Send an angry email of your own to univreg@cornell.edu, just like the Schedge admins told you to! Seriously, do it. I did an interview with Ross Skaliotis, the creator of Schedulizer, a while back, but we never ran it in the magazine. Nonetheless, he was a really cool dude (a member of the rare breed of Cornell-to-Ithaca transfers, no less!) so you should have his back. I know I do.
UPDATE: Ross Skaliotis is indeed the creator of Schedulizer, but he sold it to some Cornell kids a little while back when he got an offer from Google.
Tags: administration, ARGH ARGH ARGH, big red tape, schedulizer
