It's not open to everyone yet. Some classes are reserved for students who are actually in the department so if you add it you'll be on the waitlist.

oh ok cool thanks

Sometimes some spots are held for students from specific faculties. So those open spots are most likely those reserved spots, and the people on the waitlist are waiting for one of the other students to drop.

Can this be done for all the retards who fail classes too? Put those who failed a class on the waiting list until everyone else has had their turn to get into it.

It's ridiculous those who never fucking ever bothered themselves to do anything for a class get a first pick just because they're in 4th year. Honestly, if they did and passed there'd have been enough space in these classes. What happens is the 4th year retards take the 3rd years' classes, the 3rd year retards take the 2nd years' classes, etc. and then 3rd and 2nd years have nothing left to take.

Does anyone feel like starting a petition about this and handing it to the administration?

Ah...The day's when students get fucked over during registration. Thank god it's almost the end for me.

@slacker90 : It's not about who fails what and what year you are in.... Or, at least I don't think so. The main problem is there are too many students in econ with too little classes. Supply and Demand! If you take it to any higher up levels, they will rarely do anything about it. It's been happening for so many years with no changes. They will just go :fuckthatshit: while you go :okay:.

yea 2nd years get the crappiest dates =[

yeeah, just got into one of the courses I wanted to take. So far:

Bus 254
Econ 291

Compared to Business students, I think we have it pretty good. Only real big problem is the 400lvl classes which only have a 30 student capacity and there are only 3-4 classes available each semester.

You guys also have to take into consideration the scholarship students too. My registration date this semester was on the 11th cause I'm only missing Econ 302 to grad. I know some scholarship students who are getting to register at around my time who haven't even started taking 300 lvl classes.

SIS decides its gonna crash when its my time to register for courses. awesome

sorry for noob question, but where can you check online for booklists?

^sfu book store website, then go look for e-service and browse the catalog.

They're not VIP:troll:


Spots are reserved for people that are in that Faculty/School.

Once they lift the reservation later (usually two weeks into the semester), anyone can register.

Also, it's because those 4th year students may need that course as a core requisite to graduate. It could be the case that they left that course at the last minute since it's an easy course. Or perhaps they were shafted when they were in 3rd year since all the 4th year students also hogged the spots. It's a perpetual cycle I tell ya. The school just needs to hire more crappy lecturers to open up classes.

^ Bingo.

On the note of new professors and lecturers. Prepare to be bombarded with them next year. I already spot 5-8 newbies coming in for the 300--400 classes. Hoorah.
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Brilliant.

I've heard lecturers like Akbar and Golovetskyy who teach almost all lower-division classes get paid ~ $4500 per semester to teach a 3 credits course, apparently much less than their TAs. No benefits like pension or dental plan. Why not hire more of them? You can pay their salary from enrolling two int'l students in the class. :)

There is no way Akbar get's paid that little.

People like Dunbar, Allen, Cox, all get 80-100K+. And they are the few better profs.

On a side note, word on the street, I heard Akbar got fired or something.

They do 'cause they are profs, not lecturers. Even Cox is a continuing senior lecturer, not a prof (Faculty). Real profs teach 2-3 courses a year and the senior of them get 150K+. Lecturers' pay apparently is so terrible PhD students prefer to be TAs 'cause it pays much more.

But check back and you'll see Akbar used to be a limited term lecturer teaching ~10 courses a year. Google for his cv (www.sfu.ca/~makbar/Akbar-CV.doc). I mean be reasonable - super easy classes but this guy is a joke, who would hire him as a prof? I've heard he got fired too but I think all they had to do was find an excuse not to give him another contract.

Have a chat with some of the PhDs who've been around - you can learn lots of gossip and how things actually work.

Apparently Lecturers make hardly anything..... We went through the payscale breakdown with our t.a.....

I'm taking it MWF 1:30-2:30pm

Akbar showing his true colours at Kwantlen: uses calculus in his courses, gives different exams from the practice ones, 31 % averages on exams and fails people... Did he ever do any of this at SFU?

Mohammad$Akbar - Kwantlen Polytechnic University - RateMyProfessors.com

^LAWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLL

From what I heard, the first time he taught econ305, he had a class average of 80%.

From when I took 103 with him, he had the same practice midterm as the actual midterm, with the same spelling mistakes, and the same repeating double question. During the actual midterm, he just told us to skip it.

math 154/ling 100/bisc 300/physics 101


anyone? :alone: In the fall? :alone: :alone:

BUS 237, ARCH 100, Sa 100 :alone:

Comm 110 (Surrey), ASC 102 (Surrey), Hist 212

Math 251, Math 232, CMPT 128, Phys 121 (maybe macm 101)

anyone?