I Miss 1600grand

This morning a friend and I left our building at 9:20am to enroll in our classes for the semester. It took over 3 hours. According to the information I was given on International Orientation Day, I needed to have with me my passport, my visa, my letter of acceptance, and an up-to-date transcript from my home university. I had my letter of acceptance in my email, but I could not print it out because I can not log onto any of the computers in the labs without my email and password, which you only get once you enroll. An up-to-date transcript from Macalester? Yeah, I don't carry any of those around with me. You have to formally request one and they mail it to you, so that would take awhile. I went to the international office to see if they had a printer I could use, but they did not. Luckily the student working at the front desk was nice enough to let me illegally do it.

Did I end up needing any of these documents? No.

First I had to wait in line for them to print out my enrollment form. Domestic students all had this mailed to them, so they got to skip this part. Next, I had to get my visa checked and they only had one person doing it and it took forever. Then I had to wait in line to enroll and the College of Arts and Social Science of course had the most ridiculously long line. Then I waited in another line, the purpose of which I never figured out, before being sent over to the library where I waited in another long line for a computer where I actually enrolled online, and finally I waited to get my student ID card.

Apparently it is only like this for first-years, but it was terrible. I love you Macalester. Even you , 1600grand. You may be a retarded system, but you only take 5 minutes and I can register from the comfort of my bed.