Registration not serving students
I am very angry with the registering process here at Towson. Transferring from a two-year school, everyone had a first-come, first-served chance. It didn’t matter if you were an athlete or on a debate team. And to Rachel’s comment (Letters to the Editor, Nov. 16, 2009) about working their “butts off… to be admitted into the honors college,” do you think the rest of us have been sitting around with our thumbs up our asses? We obviously must have done something right to make it into this institution. One of the classes that I need to take in order to be accepted into my major was full before I was able to register.
That means I won’t be officially into my major until the last semester of senior year, granted I can take it two semesters from now. That is fucking ridiculous. Everyone should be able to register at the same time, no matter what. I just want to make sure I have everything I need. And I shouldn’t have to wait until the last minute to be getting it completed, either. That isn’t my fault. I’ve been doing exactly what I need. It’s Towson that isn’t doing its job right.
Jeff Young
junior
pre-emf
Professor rating Web site useful for class decisions
After reading “One school, 2,055 professors, thousands of opinions,” I was talking to my psych professor about what other options students have in order to learn about their potential candidates for the following semester. Then I realized... there are no great resources for students to base a choice off of. After all, most of the friends/roommates I have don’t have the same teachers I have and sometimes the students in my classes are on a totally different wavelength than I am about a certain professor. I, personally, use Ratemyprofessors every semester to help pick between professors I have never had before. In the article, Professor Thom Lieb says that you will only see outliers on Ratemyprofessors and that student evaluations that are filled out at the end of every semester hold more value. But the question is, value to whom? To the professor that gets his grade at the end of the semester too? If you’re going to make an argument like that, maybe students should have access to the evaluations that the student body fills out at the end of every semester instead of relying on something like Ratemyprofessors.com. In fact, I think that is a great idea and SGA should probably get on it. Having access to the rate that the entire student body thinks about each professor here at Towson would make it a lot easier to make an educated decision on whether or not you want to take a course with that teacher. Just a thought.
Lauren Seasholtz
senior
sociology
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