Right after I typed the word “lingering” I did a double take because I thought I might have typed the word “lingerie” o.O.

Anyway, when I was a kid (age-wise) I was a pretty sentimental sorta gal. Every trinket in my room held significance because “this toy came from my best friend in grade one” and “this card was made by someone who cheered me up when I was being bullied in grade six” and “these rocks came from a friend’s hike and she thought they looked so cool in the riverbed.” Trinkets were important because they represented the momentary halt of the laws of time and space, and I could access moments in my past and my friends’. I liked lingering on those memories because they were parts of life that I had the blessing to inhabit.

I still like lingering, now. (And if you keep on reading the word lingerie and it’s totally spoiling the post for you I apologize. I can’t read my own writing without giggling a little).

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So I’m on UBC’s course registration site and there are a number of fun things about the site that makes course registration easy-peasy (especially if you’ve dealt with the UC’s Oracle system). I will, however, refrain from making unnecessary comparisons between the two systems because I still love my alma mater and its quirks.

On UBC’s course registration system though, a cool colour scheme, easy-to-read font and overall clean aesthetics always makes for a nice start, especially if first-time students are rather flustered and wondering about what courses to take and where to click.

What I enjoy most though is the fact that when you hover over a course, the courses you’ve already saved to your worklist (similar to the UC’s shopping cart) show up in a mock timetable with the proposed course’s times highlighted so you know immediately if you will run into a time conflict. See here:

Hovering over EPSE 311 304 causes the time to show up in red, indicating that this course clashes with my timetable. The idea is oh so useful.

Another thing I enjoy is the Test Registration button, found on the Worklist page.

This again lets you perform a mock-registration so you know if you’ve overlooked any course conflicts, thereby preventing a load of frustration.

With these few things I would venture to say that UBC’s course registration system is quite impressive, at least to my experience of five years of course registration at another university.

Perhaps the best thing of all, however, is the fact that clicking on the back button does not cause your system to crash. You might not think this a big deal but from where I’m coming from, the freedom of the back button is awesome.

Cheers (=

Hello fellow UBC-ers,

Don’t expect much from this site just yet. I haven’t even gotten into Vancouver. I am, however, super keen about when I get into this new city. Right now though I’m just procrastinating writing an honours thesis that’s due at what I’m already thinking of as my ol’ school. My haunting grounds, if you will.

Hi. I’m gonna be an ed student this fall, and I look forward to meeting someone somewhere somehow through this blog. Or maybe I’ll meet them on campus and then realize that they have a nifty cool blog too. Whatever the case, I’m looking forward to meeting you if you’re looking to meet someone else.

When I was young apparently the the most common reaction I had to strangers is the one I’m going to say to you right now, dear reader.

Hi, I’m Andrea. Wanna be friends?

Cheers,
an

PS No really, there probably wouldn’t be anything further until I get out of school. Which is this April. Whooooo!
PPS I also managed to say hi three times like that guy in Community. Score.