Hey hey all~
So if you’re lucky, this is the last time you’ll have to deal with ROSI for course enrolment. Yay you.
But the day still looms ahead of us, so here are some tips on how to make Monday’s enrolment at quick and easy as possible.
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TIP 1: Check the mothereffing enrolment indicatiors!
Like I swear to Lucifer, this is everyone’s main problem.
While being an upper year means you’re probably taking courses that give you priority, if you’re a Psych major who suddenly decides she has a fancy for Shakespeare and wants to take ENG220Y, you’re going to find yourself at a bit of a roadblock.
A roadblock that says “please contact your registrar’s office.”
And then your registrar’s office is going to ask you “Well, do you have priority for the course?” with something of a sneer, and then you’re going to feel like a moron. Do you want to feel like a moron? Nah. No one likes that.
So heed the enrolment indicators. Please.
Basically if you’re not in x program, you probably can’t sit with the people that are.
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TIP 2: Realize the university is huge.
Sometimes you won’t get the course you want. I know. I know it really sucks. I waited three years to finally take INI311Y. Like I barely got it for my last year guys.
It’s really, really unfortunate, but sometimes you won’t get the course(s) you want.
But take that as some good preparation for real life.
Sometimes you don’t get the job you want. Or the man you want. Or men. Or woman. Whatever. Sometimes you won’t get a pony or an orca or a panda. All you can do is move forward and make sure you have a back up plan.
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TIP 3: Make sure you have your Subject POSts!?
Now this is mostly a second year student problem, but it applies to anyone with 4.0 FCE or more.
To go through with enrolment, you need to be ACTIVE in one specialist/two majors/one major+two minors.
This means that you have to accept the invitation the program you accepted might have sent you.?This also means that even if you didn’t get into the programs you wanted, you still will need POSts!
So how do you get by even though the Cinema Studies specialist rejected you in the first request period?
First, you cry. Second, you cry a bit more. Then after that, you settle. You join some combination of Type 1 programs and then you enrol.
Now relax, you’re not married to those programs — but you DO need them.
Think of it as a happy compromise.
The best thing you can do in that Type 1 settling for sort of situation is go into a program at least somewhat related to your program of choice, or a program that gives you priority into courses that will also be related to your program of choice.
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TIP 4: Use an order.
You can check how many spots are in a course on ROSI if you go to the “View Timetable/Spaces” tab.
There, note how many spots are in each of the courses you want.
Then rank said courses.
Naturally, enrol in the class that has 25 spots before the one that has 140.
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TIP 5: Enrol in courses YOURSELF.
If you’re getting a parent/friend to enrol for you because you’re off planting trees in the middle of nowhere or something and they botch things up, accept your fate.
That’s on you.
If your account gets locked because they mess up your password, no one is going to fix things for your parent/friend. So if you don’t get the courses you want because we all had to wait for you to come back from your vacation in Neverneverland, again, that’s on you.
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TIP 6: Have a contingency plan.
Always always ALWAYS have a contingency plan.
As I pointed out a few points ago, you won’t always get the courses you want, so make sure you have some other courses in mind!
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And remember…
Cheers!
aska