OT...... days of yore or damn I’m old!

[wiccanpony]

nope nothing about painting or minis...

I had a lovely hot boring afternoon, doing some paperwork while my niece Stacy bitched and moaned trying to sign up for next semesters classes at one of our local community colleges on the computer.

So being the Wise(a$$) Witch that I am I thought I would enlighten her on how we old bats did it “ in days of yore”

First you were issued a day to show up to resister for classes or the “Cattle Call from Hell”. As this is sunny Calif. the fun filled event was held outside under any shade that could be found.

English table over there, Science under the tree that birds are sitting in, pooping on all those nice volunteers, ( if you like sons/daughters of Satan on the rag”). *note for our UK friends.. it means having a bad time of the month* <------ being delicate for the guys here who may not know how close to death they are from a near and dear one who is ovulating.


Each volunteer sat before castle walls of boxes and boxes of little cards, so many cards per class, with the Seniors having first rights. You knew those Seniors were holding Dark Bloody Rites to get to the head-of-the-line.

Now the object of this “game” is to get in line with a hundred others and pray that special class you need doesn\'t fill up before you got to the front of the line. Other wise you tried for your second choice, or third, or four, or settled for Beading 101.

I could of gone on for hours but Stacy’s eyes were glazing and the drool hanging from the corner of her mouth told me shock had set in and anymore unwelcome tales would push her over into a coma.

You Kids Are A Bunch of Cream Puffs and have it to easy

now let me tell you about walking 5 miles in a snowstorm, up hill with a starving timber wolf gnawing on one ankle..........:cussing: lol

 

[Sand Rat]

Damn. We were doing it that way here in the 80\'s. Except in a gym that the bodies overpowered the AC in.

 

[wiccanpony]

Originally posted by steelcult
Damn. We were doing it that way here in the 80\'s. Except in a gym that the bodies overpowered the AC in.

for me that was the 60\'s so toss in incense, weed and major hippy body funk that would drop a Yak at 100 paces.:|~

 

[Shawn R. L.]

I remember having to go thru that crap back in high school. Organized chaos!!

 

[PegaZus]

Never had to do that in high school. For some reason, all the high math and science always had plenty of open spots.

College was a might different. Had to use that horrible, ghastly, archaic push button phone. *shudder*

Now, extrapolate this \"old fogey-ism\" stuff out another thirty years.

Why, back in MY DAY, we didn\'t have any of this direct-connect brain interface crap. If you wanted to do something on the net, you had to use a KEYBOARD and a MOUSE! Talk about HARSH! You young whipper-snappers don\'t know how hard it was back in Aught-Eight!

 

[Dragonsreach]

Ah these young\'uns don\'t know how lucky there are to have a CHOICE.

We were told what subjects we were doing and that was the end of it.

 

[Springbok]

Same here, i was told which subjects to take by my grandperants, i ended up with maths, biology, accounting, business studies and geography.

 

[airhead]

You forgot going back to Add/Drop for the next two weeks because you could not understand the foreign grad student that was teaching the course.



My favorite course:

Underwater basketweaving:
Prerequisites: Basketweaving II, Advanced Scuba.



The one I always looked for in the catalogue but could not find:

Independantly Wealthy 3103

 

[Sand Rat]

Originally posted by wiccanpony

Originally posted by steelcult
Damn. We were doing it that way here in the 80\'s. Except in a gym that the bodies overpowered the AC in.

for me that was the 60\'s so toss in incense, weed and major hippy body funk that would drop a Yak at 100 paces.:|~

Thank the Monkee Gods I missed out on that.

As a side note when I was working for the college paper we were going through the photo morgue and found pictures of what can only be one of the few pro-Vietnam war rallies held nation wide on a college campus.

 

[philologus]

It\'s a testament to how inept the acadmeic circle is, that even with computers they have made it painful and time-consuming. I did all my sign-ups on line and inevitably had to go in person everytime to correct what someone had done to my records. Not to mention the school \"lost\" my file 3 times!

 

[Ebonbuddha]

I remember those days. I was in the late 80s early 90s group.

I remember one time I was being smart and showed up at 7am (two hours earlier than the schedule registration time) to finish my registration. When I walked into the gym it was already full. Others got the idea to show up at 5am and 6am. DOH!

 

[Gilvan Blight]

Never had to do that here, it may be a US thing. At first it was done by paper at a registrar\'s office then it swapped to a phone in system. We still had the deal where the class would be full and you would have to show up in person with an admissions slip the first day of class to get signed in. And then a month later there was the whole drop any class you aren\'t doing well in before the drop date hits mess. It was never fun but never as bad as the stories here.

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by Ebonbuddha
I remember those days. I was in the late 80s early 90s group.

I remember one time I was being smart and showed up at 7am (two hours earlier than the schedule registration time) to finish my registration. When I walked into the gym it was already full. Others got the idea to show up at 5am and 6am. DOH!

Reminds me of the used textbook sale at Queen\'s U. when I was in undergrad. I lined up at 5 am once, there were already dozens in the queue. All for the chance to save over a hundred bucks on your semester\'s textbooks, which for some of us was the difference between having books, and making do without (or getting a really abused copy with torn pages and pink hi-liter everywhere). Later, they made the book sale an all-year affair, like a regular store, but the really good stuff still disappeared quickly.

Signup for classes was by mail in July, IIRC.

 

[DaN]

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