Difficulties

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One would think that the best university in the country with the fastest internet would have very efficient and easy-to-understand student IT-service systems.  However, many of Seoul National University's IT systems are much different and, in my opinion, less efficient than UH Manoa's IT systems. Today's focus is on course registration.

For example, pertaining to course registration, UH Manoa's system is relatively simple: choose the institution you're taking the course at, copy-and-paste the course CRN, and click register. The cool thing about UH Manoa's system is that it allows you to list more than one course before clicking registration, thus enabling the user to get it over with in one go.

SNU's system, however, only allows you to register for one course at a time.  And because course slots are very competitive (and I mean 40-slots-gone-in-3-seconds competitive), you have to strategize and determine which courses take top priority and which don't, because you wouldn't want to use your valuable 3 seconds to register for a class you don't really need. 

On top of registration difficulties, the College of Business Administration exchange students got "shafted," as the school did not inform us that all SNU-CBA courses are 'restricted' for full-time SNU-CBA students, and that we exchange students would have to wait a full 2 days before the restrictions drop in order to register for our courses.

All in all, I did get 3 of the courses I wanted (Financial Management, International Business Management, Marketing Management). As long as the Investments professor gives me an override, I should be breezin' with a 3-class-days-per-week schedule...