At 1:30PM sharp...
The gates to the NTU infamous "Student Automated Registration System", more commonly known as STARS, was unlocked...
Hundreds, Thousands of people flooded in through the online gate, hoping to secure a place in the next semester for the module they wanted...
Time was crucial.
I clicked the "Add course to STARS" button as fast as I possibly could...
And...
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A new window popped up...
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In the next few seconds, MY FATE for the next semester will be decided...!!!
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I WATCHED IN ANTICIPATION...
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I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRAY FOR THE BEST...
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A new window popped up...
And...
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I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRAY FOR THE BEST...
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A new window popped up...
And...
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FIVE RED MESSAGES ENDING WITH DEADLY EXCLAMATION MARK NEARLY BLINDED MY EYES.
"Have no more vacancies!"
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WTF?!!!!!!!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WTF?!!!!!!!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was overwhelmed.
Shocked.
Stunned.
Lost for words...
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All the planning I have done. All FIVE classes that I wanted have NO MORE VACANCIES?!
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At that moment, I only have 2 choices - either continue camping for the classes I wanted, or start to grab the other available time slots while it is still there.
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Time was running out.
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I realized there's really no point in stubbornly sticking with the original plan...
So at that time, I just came up with a secondary time-table on the spot and register it ASAP...
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This mean that I'm now in totally different classes with my friends from the previous semester.
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I don't have ONE SINGLE similar class with them.
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And to make thing worst, I could not get into 1 of the core module.
There were/are 10 classes for that module, yet none of them have any vacancies. Every single class vacancy was "zero", "zero" and more "zero". The only classes with vacancies clashed with my other classes...
And so, I SPENT THE ENTIRE DURATION, and the entire afternoon camping at the website.
Refresh, Check... zero...
Click... Refresh, Check... zero...
Refresh... Refresh... more zeroes...
And this went on and on...
FOR THREE AGONIZING HOURS...
Until the registration period closed...
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In the end, I still didn't get the course I wanted.
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I called the office, and they said they could place me to join classes conducted by other schools...
WTF...
Why the hell would I want to do that?
To do such a "team-oriented" module with people that I'm totally unacquainted with ...
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At that point, the results for the examinations wasn't released yet, and I really felt it was sign of bad things to come...
It was the FIRST time I had to register my own course, and this is what I get... -_-
Everything was hitting me in the worst possible way. I felt the results for my exams were going to be really bad, even though it was in no way related to the module registration.
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In an instant, My world went from light into darkness...
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Haiz...
Sorrow turned into frustration.
Frustration turned into anger.
Anger turned into fear.
Into Loneliness...
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This, together with some other things that happened on that day...
Had me really feeling down for a while.
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Maybe even a little depressed....
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Even now...
Even though the worst is now over...
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This system is still causing me lots of distress...
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And I can only sing this song...
"Wait You Wait Till I Heart Pain"...
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Waiting for the class I wanted to get into...
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