Obligatory update to my Tech schedule problem

Last night I posted an entry, venting my frustrations about a problem that arose when I lost access to my class schedule.  To be fair, I should post an update.

That night my mom used the website to pay the remaining balance of the bill, and within an hour the hold was removed from my record, granting me access to my schedule.  All things considered, today went fine.  Also, it turns out that I did get a notification email the day the hold was put on my record, but it on Thursday, the day the bill was created, so that brings me to two points: First, a hold shouldn’t have been put on my record, period.   Such aggressive action was unnecessary, considering that the bill was created the same day, as well as because the reason the class wasn’t added before the regular billing cycle was the fault of the college of Engineering.  Second, even if the hold was justified, under no circumstances should they block my ability to view my schedule.  I keep a copy of my schedule in OneNote, but the timing was just horrible for hold put on my record, because I hadn’t done that yet.

I’m just glad that everything worked out and hoping that these kinds of close calls won’t be common!

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20 January 2009 comment TrackBack-URI