I completely and utterly HATE web advisor right now.

For those of you who are lucky enough to not have to deal with Web Advisor, I will explain what this vicious and uncaring creature this is. It is Mount Saint Vincent University’s account for financial information, seeing your schedule and where you REGISTER for classes.

If you have any friends, or multiple friends from MSVU on facebook today between 10am to present some of the status updates you may have witnessed are likely as follows:

Cari: HATES the MSVU server

John:

hates webadvisor….

Stephanie: …dear webadvisor: thanks to you i have to go to the registrar to register tomorrow, and will probably not get into my courses. i hate you. -stephani

Madison: has been waiting at the same page on WebAdvisor for a half hour -_-

Kirsty: Still could not register in ANY class after 4 freaking hours!!!!!!!!!!

Suzanne:

im pretty sure the msvu webadvisor is trying to make me throw my computer through the wall…

Catie is thinking that everyone at the Mount should team together to annihilate WebAdvisor.

And mine is full of many updates in including this one:

Jill: so friggen pissed at web advisor. effing sucks. thought i was registered for all my classes, BUT i am registered for TWO of the same classes. and now im going to be effing stuck in the 830 class AGAIN. F you webadvisor. and F you MSVU.

Yes, we are all feeling the same right about now. Not only am I probably going to have to be in an 830 class OR rearrange my ENTIRE schedule, but because of web advisor I had to miss one of my favourite parts of the week.

ZUMBA.

For those of you who don’t have the pleasuring of knowing what Zumba is. I will explain.” Zumba is a fusion of Latin and International music that creates a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness system,” (Official Zumba website, zumba.com). Even if you can’t dance (like myself) it is so much fun! My instructor, Melissa, says “even if you can’t follow the steps all I care is if you just keep moving and have fun”! It’s really a great time! OH and did I mention…. this was my LAST zumba class!!!!!!!

Person vs WebAdvisor

Now that I’ve gone on that side tangent – back to the battle with the HATED web advisor.

If we head back to earlier today, say around 9:55 am, I was in the cafe at MSVU with a circle of friends, all of us just waiting for the clock to tick on 10 AM. We were all keeners trying to get in specific classes to create the perfect schedule for Fall 2010. And when the clock struck 10, web advisor began to crash. From refreshing your page to the login screen to refreshing your page back to the register screen web advisor was taking a toll on everyone. Even those who ended up getting into their top classes were having trouble with this monster of a system. No one I saw was happy, and those who were happy with web advisor were a scarce sort.

One friend was successful, registering for each of her top classes in under an hour. While others were be re-routed to Fall 2009 classes and somehow this beast was registering her for those classes.

While taking a break from watching my “register” page load to get brunch in the cafe I ran into a friend, Payne. He’s an IT guy here at the Mount and happened to be on break with 2 of the men who were in charge of web advisor. They tried to give me tips but I was already too filled with the venom.  Payne comfortingly tried to tell me that they even set up an extra server to avoid potential problems today, but the monster prevailed. No one could stop it.

Finally I received an email saying Confirmation of Registration. This email said I was successfully registerd for the classes I wanted. BUT it did not list the classes I had been registered for. Being the on-the-safe-side girl I am I called the Registrar’s Office so they could double check I had successfully registered for all my classes. The man I talked to gave me 5 thumbs up, and said I was good to go.

The rest of my day went quite smoothly.

UNTIL

About 6:20 tonight I decided to again be the on-the-safe-side girl I am and triple check to make sure I was registered for all my classes. I do not like 830 classes. And this was the reason I was ready this morning promptly at 10 AM. One of the classes I was trying to get into had an 830 possibility. And I was not taking the chance of getting into that class. I am not a happy person so early in the morning.

I quickly was able to see that I was registered for one of my classes TWICE and was NOT registered for the class that could possibly be at 830. Me = not a happy camper / having a sick-to-my-tummy feeling.

So I had to give in. I registered for that STUPID STUPID 830 AM class.

Dear Web Advisor,

Next year you better watch your back. I don’t – and I won’t – give up easy. I will get you next year. I will get you when you least expect it. When you are thinking about living a long and happy life. I will get you so bad that you will NEVER want to step foot on the Mount website again. I will SHAME you. SHAME is what you will feel. I hope you’re happy, because this happiness you feel… It won’t last long.

From your worst enemy.

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