Online Registration: Coming Soon!
Tangela Linn, Writer
September 1, 2010
Filed under Student Life & News
All students know the monotony of waiting in line for hours to register for classes. The registration line, and your place in it, is the line that decides what classes you take. When advisors announced that Catawba would be converting to online registration by fall 2011 the campus rejoiced.
Students of local universities take for granted the luxury of effortlessly registering for classes from their rooms. Teachers were becoming frustrated because the majority of students were willing to skip their classes to wait in line at the Registrar’s office.
Online registration will mean great things for Catawba. First off, it will be one more step towards a paperless campus as students will now be able to log on and sign up for classes with the click of a mouse. Catawba Junior Sarah Robinson concurred that online registration will be a step in the right direction for Catawba because “it’s a vital step in Catawba’s eco-conscious agenda. Online registration means no paper-trail, plus no one stands in line. It is a win-win for all.”
Sarah offered a great point; students will no longer have to miss class for registration or stress over being in line. Those who face the greatest pressure during registration are the rising sophomores, as they register last. Registration starts at eight AM each morning of the week and concludes at three-thirty PM each afternoon except for the final day. Rising sophomores often flood to the doors of the Registrar’s office by as breathtakingly early as five and six AM to beat their fellow students to the best and often times most necessary classes.
One of the most important reasons that this new registration process will benefit Catawba is because classes will truly become first come, first serve. There will no longer be a class standing bias, which has frustrated students for years. Registration rules such as seniors register first, rising sophomores last and your registration time depending on your last name’s alphabetical place in line will all be gone.
Catawba College is taking a steady step into the 21st century and I, as well as my fellow classmates are proud to be a part of it.
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