This makes me sad: Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character

Oh, and being that it was the mid-80s and a cheap-ass Catholic school when it came to updating their systems, all registration was done in person at the old gym--you'd go up to the appropriate department's table and ask for the old-style computer punchcard for the class you wanted. If they were out, you'd have to reconfigure your schedule and then go back and ask for the other class instead. People would be sitting in the center of the gym, frantically reworking their classes to get everything in. Then you had to go through the rest of the building, stopping by the financial room and signing a rather substantial check, get any other forms, etc., in other rooms, before finishing.

Minus the punch cards, that's how I registered for classes at Northwestern in 1996. Everything was done manually on paper. It sucked.

Holy awesome. Someone just cooked bacon in the microwave and now the whole office smells like BACON.

Pics from my symposium are here: [link]

Look at my happy physicists! I have a horrible crush on one of them who did me the lovely favor of surfing every morning and afternoon and looked hawt in a wetsuit.

Oh, another thing about UW-Madison - instead of all departments being in the gym, you had to walk to each department's building to register. Then if you had to rearrange your schedule you had to walk to all these buildings all over again. (The Madison campus is spread over a wide area.) Then when you were done, you had to line up in the Stock Pavilion (seriously - it had straw on the floor and smelled like cow) to turn your stuff in. Inevitably, someone in line would start to moo, and pretty soon you had everyone loudly mooing as they waited their turn....

Minus the punch cards, that's how I registered for classes at Northwestern in 1996. Everything was done manually on paper. It sucked.

Gustavus Adolphus College also did the paper reg. Hated it.

This makes me sad: Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character

God, why do people have to suck? That's outrageous.

I remember that book, but I don't remember that panel.

Bug just called me to say she is getting a B in her college Chemistry class. She is also stressing over class registration for next semester. Her time slot is in an hour and apparently there are no more spaces in the Chem class for next semester.

Is she stressing about the B? Because from what I remember from my language students talking about their other classes (and I had a lot of science majors), that's a pretty good grade.

For Empress Aims and all other forms of royalty.

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