Since nearly every blogger in NUS is dissing CORS... I thought I add in my two cents worth of frustration! (2 cents might not seem much, but if you consider how many NUS students there are doing this, it's might be enough to see a medicine student through a few years of his course!)
Anyway, CORS: Contralised Online Registration System. The system was conceptualised due to complains from a certain faculty in NUS that the old balloting system was unfair. And then what happens? We have to ballot for our tutorials! And that's the problem that is plaugueing the NUS servers at the moment!If you want a technical understanding of what is going on, please go and read Joel's blog, it has a pretty good perspective on the problem!
What to say, this is the first time in three semesters that I have to use CORS to get tutorials. Why? Because I've taken only math modules in the past 2 semesters and the math lectures have the brains to avoid using CORS for tutorial registrations! In fact most of the level 4000 math modules use the 4th hour lecture timeslot anyway. Which saves a lot of problems.
Ironic, the computer was invented by a mathematicians, yet the very modules in which the lectures rather not use the computer are the math modules!
Oh well, this round of ranking of tutorials have extended to 6am tomorrow morning. I think I will just wake up at 5.45am or earlier to do my stuff! Anyway, I have a lecture at 8am. Which I will watch from home anyway, hopefully the servers can handle THAT! I guess there are going to be many sleepy people in NUS tomorrow!
