Yes, there is a seat capacity due to the actual lecture hall that the section is located in. However, if there is enough demand more sections may be opened. The university needs to provide you access to your required courses that you need to complete your degree, they can't take your money promising you'll get x degree and then not provide the courses to fulfill that degree.

Originally Posted by Chad

Yes, there is a seat capacity due to the actual lecture hall that the section is located in. However, if there is enough demand more sections may be opened. The university needs to provide you access to your required courses that you need to complete your degree, they can't take your money promising you'll get x degree and then not provide the courses to fulfill that degree.

It is acutally sad but stats 2B03 is a degree requierment for alot of peoples program and alot of us were denied acess to the class in second year and told to "just take it in third year" which is such a hassel now, and apparenty the undegrad office JUST found out that they were denying us the course from the Deans Office and have now created more sections. Little too late..... UGG they need to hire more profs.

Originally Posted by salimak

It is acutally sad but stats 2B03 is a degree requierment for alot of peoples program and alot of us were denied acess to the class in second year and told to "just take it in third year" which is such a hassel now, and apparenty the undegrad office JUST found out that they were denying us the course from the Deans Office and have now created more sections. Little too late..... UGG they need to hire more profs.

Stats 2B03 is a Level III course, it is labeled as a Level II course because the content difficult is that for Level II. But McMaster fully intends it to be a course taken in Level III, not II.

Too bad they laid off profs last year. Good job, Mac.

Mac is becoming more and more of an epic failure.


ELM = Fail.
MUGSi = Fail.
SOLAR = Fail.
1280 = Fail.
Textbooks = Fail.
Professors = Fail.

I know I'm missing a lot more....

^ Yeah, ELM is a real fail. Except for the fact that we're not using it this year.

1280 - aren't they getting new management for this year?

Textbooks = fail? Right, because Stewart's calculus is a horrible book and is only used at McMaster. Oh wait - it's used in tons of places and it's excellent, as are most of the textbooks. But I'd love to hear why suddenly 'all textbooks' are so bad.

Professors = fail? Is this, more or less than at any other school? Or do you really think every other University has amazing professors and Mac has horrible ones?
Protip: the professors you encountered in first year were deliberately chosen for their teaching ability, and not necessarily their research statistics (e.g., Hatala, who doesn't even have a phd). What more could you possibly want?

The only thing that's a definite fail at Mac is MUGSI/SOLAR. Everything else you listed is complete BS that could be rectified easily, or the complaints are so general and vague that they can't be applied to Mac alone.

Just out of curiosity has anyone ever found out what the maximum allowable number of students on MUGSI is?

Is it like 500? 200? 100?

Because sometimes it feels like there are 1000 people who need to pick courses and they only let 10 people on mugsi at a time to do so.

tried to log into mugsi a quarter to 12 and it's already full
wtf

This is rediculous dammit it's been 24 hours and I STILL Can't get on Mugsi even. Tried getting on b4 work and now after work but hey, guess it's still full :rage:

Originally Posted by Sasha

This is rediculous dammit it's been 24 hours and I STILL Can't get on Mugsi even. Tried getting on b4 work and now after work but hey, guess it's still full :rage:

that's because you have a bunch of second year business and humanities students trying to log on right now to register for their courses
couldn't even get into mugsi 15 min early =A=

I've been trying since 11:33

Given a 45 minute timer, logic dictates that if I try continually until 12:18, I should be able to get a slot on mugsi as people are being bumped off. But MUGSI operates outside the realm of mere logic.

What you do, is to keep your cursor on the MUGSI link, and just close the 'max students on' window with ALT+F4. It's faster and you're more likely to get on. I've gotten on at least 4 times today doing that.

However, it's really slow right now because everyone's on.

Got my 5 comm classes, picked 4 disgusting ****ing useless electives (out of a list 50-60 classes I wrote down), and somehow my tuition is already higher than last year's.

Originally Posted by Alchemist11

^ Yeah, ELM is a real fail. Except for the fact that we're not using it this year.

1280 - aren't they getting new management for this year?

Textbooks = fail? Right, because Stewart's calculus is a horrible book and is only used at McMaster. Oh wait - it's used in tons of places and it's excellent, as are most of the textbooks. But I'd love to hear why suddenly 'all textbooks' are so bad.

Professors = fail? Is this, more or less than at any other school? Or do you really think every other University has amazing professors and Mac has horrible ones?
Protip: the professors you encountered in first year were deliberately chosen for their teaching ability, and not necessarily their research statistics (e.g., Hatala, who doesn't even have a phd). What more could you possibly want?

The only thing that's a definite fail at Mac is MUGSI/SOLAR. Everything else you listed is complete BS that could be rectified easily, or the complaints are so general and vague that they can't be applied to Mac alone.

1280 - New Management or not... the food their sucks. Waiting 3-4 hours in a line to party is a complete waste of time.

Textbook - Because of the outrageous prices and the stupid policy at buyback. 25-50% for a sealed book never opened good as new?!?!?! still in use btw.

Professors - In OUR first year BIO we had to deal with Dr. Jacobs, Dr. Wilson and Dr. Papa. You had it very easy my friend. Hatala is the perfect professor he is awesome. He made learning fun. I wish most teachers were like that and they are out there. Just some Professors hate teaching and just don't give a damn.

Originally Posted by Cassanova

1280 - New Management or not... the food their sucks. Waiting 3-4 hours in a line to party is a complete waste of time.

Textbook - Because of the outrageous prices and the stupid policy at buyback. 25-50% for a sealed book never opened good as new?!?!?! still in use btw.

Professors - In OUR first year BIO we had to deal with Dr. Jacobs, Dr. Wilson and Dr. Papa. You had it very easy my friend. Hatala is the perfect professor he is awesome. He made learning fun. I wish most teachers were like that and they are out there. Just some Professors hate teaching and just don't give a damn.

Dr. Jacobs is an excellent teacher. He actually teaches in many different styles in one lecture which allows for a maximum of students to be able to pick up on the material since not everyone learns the same way.