You, me & Alloc8 [SuziQ]

What with the traditional Entering-University hazing basically relegated to the Collegiate, I found my first real test-of-character-and-assorted-idiocy-referred-to-euphemistically-as-‘tenacity’ with the artist formerly known as Alloc8. (I mentally spell it ‘AlloKate’; I fear this may have consequences for any Kates I meet in future. A preemptive apology to all the Kates and Katherines-who-shorten if I come across as fiery-eyed and slightly, er, terse.) For anybody who has not yet had the pleasure (o lucky souls!), Alloc8 lets you mess with your timetable online. How spesh.

Okay, so I was one of those people staying up until late became early so I could schedule a three-day weekend for the semester. My parents thought I was flippin’ insane. A couple of Commerce buddies had similar intentions; we traded running commentary about how best to sneak into the system even with the downtime and the deluge of similarly-minded weekenders. It only kind of worked. I fell asleep just before four AM with a charming – if slightly imperfect – timetable. I woke up the next morning to an email that one of my classes had been totally rescheduled and that as a result, my once-glorious timetable went the way of the dinosaurs.

Oh reader, how I wept.

At that point, I did not know you could spam entire faculty mailing lists with torrential, ungrammatical pleas to SW4P TUT3Z PLZ?!!? You can, it’s ill-advised; however, a polite and relevant variation on the theme might get you what you want. Really. You can usually find someone who wants what you have and vice-versa. Just email Alloc8 helpdesk with the name of your swapper and all those deets and they’ll do it for you quicksmart. This info is handy, because it avoids conversations like the following between hapless firsties: [paraphrased for sake of conciseness]

her: I have x and I want y
me: I have y and want x shall we swap?
her: okay how do you do that?!
me: *boggles at the irony*

My name is Suzi, and I am the token Commerce student in this year’s crop of Nerd Blog Squadders. MORE OF ME (and my Oh-Week experience) LATER. Tonight, I am going to thank the sweet stars that ‘early night’ is no longer a dirty phrase in these advanced years of mine and go to bed really, really early.

kisskiss,
SuziQ