We here at the Skyline View are students much like yourself. We do all the things you do; we hang out at the quad, rush through the halls to get to next the class, spend money at the book store only to trade them back next semester for money. We were here for the shooting and we deal with life on a daily basis. We’re just like you!
Basically we’re just like you, so we too hate it when we sign up for classes only to get that dreaded, “You have attempted to enroll in one or more classes that are full. You may select to put yourself on the waitlist for the class by clicking on Submit Changes.”
With this semester almost over, students are scrambling to get registered for their next classes only to find out that said classes are either cancelled or completely full. And long-time students are no strangers to this feeling as it’s generally been a problem at Skyline for years now.
Whether it’s due to lack of classrooms, teachers, or money, year after year there always seems to be something that gets in the way of us students registering for the classes we want. Which is why we encourage students to move on with their education and not slow down. Our advice? If you can’t find it here, look somewhere else.
A perfect example would be Skyline’s creative writing I class, which has been completely full for the longest time now. However, when one of our staffers tried enrolling in the exact same class at CSM they got the class on the spot.
Now we are not telling students to leave Skyline; we would never do that We are simply encouraging students to exhaust all possible options in order to get the classes they need by any means necessary. And if that means enrolling in classes at other community colleges, then so be it. So next time when you are adding classes and it asks “which campus” instead of choosing Skyline select the “all” option.
There is a down side, of course. As it stands some students can’t afford to travel back and forth between two to three different colleges. The idea of attending more then one college seems out of the question. But is the money and time put into going between two different schools as daunting of a task as not taking the right classes at the right time and keeping up with college credits?
In some cases you may even have to stay an extra year because the classes you want are either taken up or not available this year, or maybe you end up with the classes you do want but the credits aren’t transferable, and with certain classes holding seats for previous students, the rat race becomes even more stressful.
So unless you want to be stuck in a community college limbo with no hopes of transferring in the immediate future we challenge you to do whatever it takes to make sure your educational career doesn’t come to a screeching halt just because you’re on a waitlist.