Erika Nilsson

All right, this messed-up timetabling system is getting on my nerves. I check them all at the start of term, make sure I have no clashes, get my Learning Agreement signed. A week later someone has been there with Murphy’s bloody Tombola and shuffled everything: I have to change two courses (picking the new ones from a choice of the only three I can possibly take); there’s another week of international paper pushing. Then fine for most of term, so much so that I get complacent. Hey presto, December arrives, and not until today do I realise that I’ve already missed out on three lectures and two tutorials, and will miss out on two more lectures if nothing changes (which it, judging by past experience, probably will), because of — yes sir, clashes due to sudden, unexplained, poorly announced timetable changes! Particularly charming was the hastily decided upon extra lecture on Differential Equations on December 2nd, announced on … December 1st. (I learnt about it during the lecture on December 3rd.) Yay, guys.