advising, confused?

[confused]

ok, i am going into 3rd year and got an email today saying i could advise on the 30th sept. 1st Oct or 4th Oct, am confused, does that mean that i cant matriculate till then i.e get my loan or anything, or am i being really stupid, perhaps i am... but i dont understand, is that normal for 3rd year?

[Prophet Tenebrae]

Eh... if you're a third year then shouldn't you know all this? Advising is a necessary prerequisite to matriculation but generally, as a third year - unless you have fucked up in exams - this will be a case of rubber stamping. It's really rather pointless IMO, then off to more form stamping at matriculation.

How you've managed to sail through this twice before with no recollection is the real question though. Unless you're from foreign climbs.

[jennyo]

[s]Prophet Tenebrae wrote on 00:17, 17th Sep 2004:


How you've managed to sail through this twice before with no recollection is the real question though. Unless you're from foreign climbs.


I managed to forget how to advise/matriculate every single year. I think I had some sort of mental block. But then, I am from foreign climes.

[hr]
If you can't be a good example then you'll have to be a horrible warning

[confused]

right ok sorry for not knowing... although after all your talk you never really answered the question which was: Does that mean i wont matriculate till the 30th?

[KateBush]

Ten could be a labour mp!

[Paranoid]

It's one of the weirdest periods for me every year. I try to recall the year before and all I can remember is being rushed through the Music Hall! I'm 4th year and I still attempt to wing it cause I dont know any better! My advice is just go to your Department and check the notice board cause it usually has all the details.

[Guest]

dont worry i didnt understand either and still dont either! does that mean you wont matriculate till around the 30th? in which case i can stay at home till them and wont have to be up for the 22nd like i thought?

[Kegrad]

Are anyones module choices still not approved yet? (particularly 2nd/3rd yr maths?) I'm begining to get a bit worried that i'm not going to be noticed for advising or something like that!

[md25]

[s]Kegrad wrote on 11:06, 17th Sep 2004:
Are anyones module choices still not approved yet? (particularly 2nd/3rd yr maths?) I'm begining to get a bit worried that i'm not going to be noticed for advising or something like that!

They've changed the module codes this year, as well as one of the advisers being notoriously lazy so he won't approve until Monday morning - don't worry about it. Make sure you know the names of the modules you want to do and you'll sail through the advising process.

If you're really worried about it you can always submit your pre-advising choices again, if you've got Mr Lazy as your adviser it might spur him into action.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

I inadveretently didn't answer your question confused... to be fair, they have changed the specifics so often that it wouldn't be hard to get... well, confused.

As previously suggested, it's best to check the boards in your department but really, the 30th seems like a mad crazy date to matriculate.

[Gaz]

Every year i never have a clue what I'm meant to be doing with advising and matriculating - I'm starting 4th year next week. I dunno how you are expected to remember what you did a whole year ago, especially when every year the stupid process seems different. Its particularly annoying for me as i dont live in st.andrews, so I cant check out notice boards and stuff so easily.
Finding information on the website is like tryin to find Osama Bin Laden and they dont seem to e-mail you to let you know anything either. Maybe they are waiting until next week to supply all the information, but the amount of people confused would seem to indicate maybe they should do this earlier. I will probably end up just phoning in to the registry or the academic school, but its a major pain in the ass. I reckon if you missed your actual time anyway it wouldnt be too much of a problem, you aren't gonna get booted out the uni for that. Thankfully this is the last year i will have to go through this nonsense anyway!

[Miz Manda]

I phoned the registry and got the impression (though they weren't particularly clear) that returning students had to matriculate/register whatever at the middle to end of next week and that something would be goin up on the registry webpage today.

[confused]

ok now understanding this whole advising thing better got another email saying they had got it wrong and its thursday 23rd i need to advise not the 30th which makes so much more sense, thanks for all the suggestions though!

[Cain]

am i the only one not getting these emails?

i'm not THAT concerned, but still...

[hr]
It's now who you know, it's who who you know knows

[theflirt]

im not getting these emails either....and i am slightly concerned...i have a habit of missing important things like matriculation, but i guess ill just follow the crowds...or my flat mates.

My modules haven't been apporved yet either..again slightly concerned...i hope i just have mr Lazy...who ever he may be

[eb]

all advising and matriculation info with timetables is now on the registry webpage in the events section


glad the uni told us (haha)

hope that helps some of you who are worrying!

[Miz Manda]

Ok I have problems. Like the fact I can't find my NHS card and that my funding hasn't came through yet. Any advice as I think I'm about to have a nervous breakdown .

[rubbermuffin]

I've always found the university to be awful at telling the students about what they should be doing. I remember in first year that we weren't told how to find out where our lectures were, only the names of buildings. The Buchanan lecture theatre (where most 1st year arts lectures are) was not on any maps.

We never get told how to matriculate; we have to find out for ourselves which really isn't on. In exams in first year we weren't told to start the paper. Now maybe this is just my experience, but every other exam i had ever done up to that point we'd been told 'you may now start'. So again the uni were shitty. Shitty shitty university.

[:0]

[s]rubbermuffin wrote on 18:24, 19th Sep 2004:
I've always found the university to be awful at telling the students about what they should be doing. I remember in first year that we weren't told how to find out where our lectures were, only the names of buildings. The Buchanan lecture theatre (where most 1st year arts lectures are) was not on any maps.

We never get told how to matriculate; we have to find out for ourselves which really isn't on. In exams in first year we weren't told to start the paper. Now maybe this is just my experience, but every other exam i had ever done up to that point we'd been told 'you may now start'. So again the uni were shitty. Shitty shitty university.



Isn't the whole point of universities to do things for yourself and not be "mollycoddled"? Unlike school where there is always someone to point you in the right direction or hold your hand at university people are expected to have the brains to seek out the info for yourself. At least that's what I was told to expect when I was leaving school, and it appears to be the same at other universities around the UK.

Lecture times are usually to be found on department notice boards. Department locations can be found by looking them up on the St Andrews website, or if not by an email to the department secretary.

All the information is there, it just isn't on a plate handed to you in person. Much like life in the real world really.

And if someone can't do all that and misses all their lectures for the year then they really shouldn't be here!

[rubbermuffin]

I knew someone would write that. I don't think sending an e-mail to everyone in a module to tell them where to turn up for lectures is 'mollycoddling', do you? It is just common sense.

I don't expect the university to do everything for us, but telling 17 year olds who have left home for the first time where they should be and when is an absolute imperative in my eyes.