Webadvisor Blues

I don't know about some of you guys, but I almost had a mental breakdown this morning. Why? Because of webadvisor! Most of us future second year students managed to pull ourselves out of bed and jump to the STU site by 6AM this morning to register for classes. Just for getting us out of bed by this time is warrant for some kind of medal. Unfortunately what we received was far less then that. By 6:00:01 webadvisor crashed. It crashed harder then Hillary duff's career. By 6:30 a system reboot was done and a lucky few of us got to get a couple courses registered. Unfortunately, it once crashed again. It continued crashing until well after 10 AM. It took me over four hours just to pick out my ten courses for next year!

STU has some of the worst IT services I have ever witnessed, it's embarrassing. Build a system that can meet moderate demand. I know we have a low budget, but we are small! It's not like we flooded the system with tens of thousands of people. I'm apparently not the only unimpressed student. Within an hour of the first crash there was at least 3 facebook fan pages/groups made complaining about webadvisor. There was also a lot of funny comments made. My favorites were "Webadvisor crashes more then a drunk driver," and "No wonder why school shootings happen." Ya, ya these jokes are in poor taste but It's how we all felt. Don't deny it. I even felt threatened for my life when a person who shall remain unnamed(Lucas Schofield) started threatening to stab people.

STU, you are potentially causing violence and unrest. It starts with facebook groups and escalates into civil war. Professor vs Professor, Student vs Student, Friend vs Friend, History majors vs English majors...pure mayhem. Is this what you want? I don't think so! So get your heads out of the clouds and get a better system going. If not? Get rid of the current one...and/or staff. I'm pretty sure we the students are paying for better then this.

Rant over,
~James.