Commentary Assignment

When it comes close to class registration time students start searching My UCF for the classes they need for their required major. Once registration is open many find it difficult to find the classes they once marked as what they wanted to take. Advisors say they can’t override the system because they would have to do that to all the other students needing that class too. So students, like me, get stuck taking bogus classes they don’t need for their major.

As a victim of this problem I have been waiting since spring 2009 to have the lab of my Chemistry II class. By the time I get the class I won’t even remember what we covered in the class almost a year ago. I have talked to several professors in the science department that have said the lecture class usually has enough spots for twice the amount of spots the labs do. So this makes it a never ending cycle of people fighting for the same classes and failing to get it while the lead scholars and various other programs get first pick on their classes before everyone else.

This causes problems with being able to graduate on time or now because of the new Bright Future rules at all. Bright Future Scholarship now makes it more difficult because we need to have 12 hours a semester and they now will stop paying for your hours after you complete 4 years even if you still are waiting on the classes you were not able to get in. Not only will you not graduate in the field you desire, but you will have to change your major and start this process of hopefully someone will drop last minute to get the classes you need.