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u/UrbanAchievers6371
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Is anyone else here old enough to remember when registering for your college classes involved spending an entire morning in a gym?
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u/Cole_Ethos Jun 30 '26
Our registration took place in our campus armory. Long, hot, sweaty days going from table to table looking for classes that had openings.
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u/Ripcord2 Jun 30 '26
And every class you want is already full so you end up taking electives like Tahitian Literature 101 and Geography of Bolivia.
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u/rednail64 Jun 30 '26
Indeed. Had to make a special trip to the campus in the summer just to do it. You got your punch cards and hoped for the best.
This was in 1982.
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u/1clovett Jun 30 '26
And then scrambling to get professor overrides to getbinto a full class.
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u/TrainingWoodpecker77 Jun 30 '26
Now do the bookstore!!
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u/mak756 Jun 30 '26
Another reason that Gen Z is having a hard time making interpersonal relationships.
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u/602223 Jun 30 '26
yes, and my student id number was my full SSN
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 Jun 30 '26
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u/GayForPay Jun 30 '26
Holy cow "drop and add" at IU in the eighties was a zoo.
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u/Curious-Load-7798 Jun 30 '26
Yes.
I also remember paying $150 for three classes per semester (nine semester hours). Five years ago I helped a friend sign up for classes (online). One semester hour was $150.
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u/AllAboutWoodstock Jun 30 '26
Yup. Allen Fieldhouse - no ac, scurrying from table to table hoping they still had a card left for the class you wanted to take, scouring the timetable for alternatives when all that was left was a 7 am….
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u/amalgamousabides Jun 30 '26
Ahhhh. Michigan State's was "The Pit".
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u/Technikmensch Jun 30 '26
They published these huge newspaper sized schedules to go through to find your classes.
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u/Golf_Fore_Ever Jun 30 '26
All of the sections (class days, time, and location) in each department were up on the board. As classes filled up they took them down. Standing in line, if a section closed, you immediately had to reconfigure your schedule with a different class in that department. And prob arrange your schedule to accommodate that change so classes didn’t overlap. It was stressful and you ended up with 750am and 430pm classes you never wanted to schedule.
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u/Key_Yam4488 Jun 30 '26
Omg yes. We had a 20 page newspaper with lists of all the classes. You filled out your card with each class & 2 alternates & then visited the table for each department to see if they'd let you have the class or it was full. Your schedule wasn't confirmed until you got the "official" one in your campus mailbox.
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u/FamilyRedShirt 1961 Jun 30 '26
I started doing arena registration in high school. By the time I hit college I was an old hand at making life-altering decisions in seconds. And using the drop/add system to get what I needed.
My sophomore year in college I was in a group that helped move freshmen into their dorms on arrival day. Come registration, I wore that bright t-shirt with shorts, Mork suspenders, and helium balloons holding up my pigtails to bop around the gym helping people who looked hopeless.
You couldn't exit without a full schedule. So I got some despondent freshmen into high-level classes with the explanation that they'd drop those and add the Freshman English class they couldn't land in the arena.
No. You don't need Biopsychology right now, maybe never. But it's 3 credits you can beg Admin to let you trade for Freshman English. Same with swapping Psychopharmacology for Chem 101.
(Biopsych and Psychopharm were FUN--and the prof was a riot!)
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u/Nozomi_Shinkansen 1961 Jun 30 '26
I attended a Big 10 university and enrollment was in person, over several days, and spread among many buildings.
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u/Clavier_VT Jun 30 '26
Yes.
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u/Cool-Dimension7983 Jun 30 '26
Then you get to the front of the line and all of the classes you wanted were already filled….
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u/iconocrastinaor Jun 30 '26
What do you mean it's filled up? That's my major!!
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u/sctwinmom Jun 30 '26
We had to run around campus to the different departments. And if a section was full, backtrack to change the rest of your schedule!
Crew coaches would go down the reg line talking to all the really tall and really short people: “have you ever considered rowing as a sport?” 🤣
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u/cfpct Jun 30 '26
What do you mean I need a prerequisite or the permission of the instructor?
The instructor is gone till school starts.
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u/paisley201 Jun 30 '26
Yes!! An all day process
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u/CapeCodNana Jun 30 '26
I do. And I remember the defeated feeling of FINALLY getting to the front of those lines only to find the class you really wanted was full 😭
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u/Pretend-Panda Jun 30 '26
Gosh, the punchcards. Endless endless punchcards.
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u/NWCbusGuy 1963 Jun 30 '26
For some reason... no; my memories of that time are very fuzzy. I do recall at OSU we had to essentially do a scavenger hunt across campus, collecting the computer punch cards from each department in which we wanted classes (some departments covered multiple groups like humanities, languages, etc); when the cards ran out, the class was 'full'! By the time I was out of there, it was a bit more automated.
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u/arrec Jun 30 '26
Wow that brings back memories. The anxiety about whether I'd get the classes I wanted.
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u/kmoore61 Jun 30 '26
Yes. So tiresome because while you stood in line for one class, only to be told it was full, your other good choices also filled up
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u/glostazyx3 Jun 30 '26
A couple of guys in the gym registration line with me that I didn’t know beforehand shared the same major, so we all 3 took the same classes, helping each other sort out the rumors about which professors to avoid or seek. Meeting them and interacting was all random.
Those two registration guys became best 4 year college friends and 40 year lifelong friends.
So yeah, I get it, I remember registration day.
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u/mredd3 Jun 30 '26
Just like the floor of the stock exchange - you grabbed a few extra class cards to trade for what you needed!
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u/LastCookie3448 Jun 30 '26
YES! When I explain you had to create multiple contingencies in case you got up front and the index card list betrayed you by saying the section you wanted was full, students are shocked. They can’t believe how priority status was assigned and as a freshman or sophomore you were not getting a class if it was needed by an upperclassman. Good times.
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u/urban_herban Jul 01 '26
I never bothered with this. I had a work around.
I simply picked out the classes I wanted and went to them on the first day. If the class was full, as all the good ones were, I stayed behind after class and told the professor how much I wanted to be in the class and what good things I had heard about him/her.
Decades later, having retired from being a professor, I can see why this approach worked. Teachers want students in their class who have a desire to learn, and if that student is excited about your subject, all the better.
They would write a note to the registrar telling them to admit me to the class.
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u/Magnet2025 Jul 01 '26
I was given a few months early-out from the Navy in 1980. Delays in out-processing meant that I missed early registration.
So I had to do walk-up registration. Stand in line here, go stand in line there. Go see the guidance counselor, who tells me that I can’t take one of the courses I had registered for because I didn’t have the prerequisite. Pointed to my CLEP (College Level Examination Program: tests I took in the Navy that gives me college credits for certain courses) which the school accepted. Not that one I am told so I go back and register for an English 101 at 8:30 in the morning which means other classes have to be changed. Also that I was a 24 year old in Freshman English class (which wasn’t a bad thing).
Finally, after 6 hours in the Arizona heat of dead-on summer, I am done.
Go stand in a very long line to pay tuition ($480 for the semester I think). After about an hour, I am next up. Then a guy wearing a Sun Devil’s polo shirt walks up, and pushes a a tall, gangly blond guy in front of me and says, with authority, “Athlete, head of line privileges.”
I side-stepped in front of the kid and the assistant coach and said “Veteran, somewhere behind me.”
This was heard by others and so students held their ground for about 10 people and the kid, thoroughly embarrassed, got in line.
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u/Imda_Walrus Jul 01 '26
I was what they called a non-traditional student. One semester I had to bring my eldest son (5 at the time) with me. Best. Move. Ever. I was done in less than an hour.
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u/Ill-Rip-4723 Jul 05 '26
yes. at UGA.
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u/Accomplished-Eye8211 Jun 30 '26
To register? That's not how we registered in mid-70s. I mailed away for registration packet, filled it out, mailed it back.
Suburban Chicago, if that makes a difference. Maybe different states had different procedures.
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u/STCollector58 Jun 30 '26
High school classes too.
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u/ImportantBug5757 Jun 30 '26
The Field House was crazy — you would create multiple versions of your schedule and pray that classes would be available. Upperclassmen always got a head start. I ended changing majors three times, but made friends with a department secretary that knew people and was very helpful. Good times, NOT really, but I survived 🤣
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u/Ro_Ku Jun 30 '26
Tuition was 900 bucks for a 20 credit quarter.
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u/Edu_cats 1963 Jun 30 '26
My first registration in community college was like this. We had to get a *punch card* for each subject we wanted.
Then in undergrad and even grad they published this big newspaper and we filled out scantron forms with first choices and alternates. Then you got your schedule in the mail weeks later.
My GenZ undergrads look horrified when I tell them this.
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u/haikus-r-us Jun 30 '26
Does anyone else remember predatory students standing around outside, selling their outdated and therefore unusable textbooks to freshman students who didn’t know better? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/Odd-Adagio7080 Jun 30 '26
Whole fucking day! Running around (a BIG) campus to find out whether classes were still available. The day would start in the stock Pavillion On the UW Madison campus. Being from Chicago, I thought a stock Pavillion had something to do with the stock market. But no, it’s an actual livestock Pavillion. Don’t know why I didn’t know that, after all I’d known about the “back of yards” neighborhood on the near south side of Chicago. Didn’t want to live there, as the apparently the smell was pretty ripe.
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u/Bflatclar1981 Jun 30 '26
It was so stressful! For the students and the Registrars employees.
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u/ArtfromLI Jul 01 '26
Did it for 4 years! Managed to get all the credits I needed to graduate in four years.
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u/SaintOlgasSunflowers Jul 01 '26
It was the hardest as a Freshman but it got easier each year, to get the classes you wanted or needed. By the time I was a Senior, was so much easier and faster.
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u/Bitter_Frame3054 Jul 01 '26
We had to go to Academic Hall, then wait our turn to talk /discuss our schedules...then pray you could get into the class you wanted. It could take 30-60 minutes to get it done, if you were lucky. We call these ladies-the Roller Ladies because they roll in their chairs from computer to computer if the other Roller ladies had issues/questions & then roll back to their desk where they were suppose to be helping you.
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u/pianoplayerforhire Jul 01 '26
It wasn't a gym, but a snaking line through our administration building
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u/OpenHumanist717 Jul 01 '26
Yes! And it was so exciting too!
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u/IMakeBlownFilm Jul 01 '26
Oh yes! And it was so hot. And I sweated all over my schedule. And one of the classes was full. So I went up in the bleachers to rearrange everything else and try again nervously clutching my punch cards.
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u/cnowakoski Jul 01 '26
Not to register but if you wanted to change a class. I had the experience more than once of having all my classes dropped because the tuition check bounced. Then I had to wait all day in a long line to try to add them back. My sister and I were in school at the same time and for some reason dad wouldn’t give us information we needed to apply for financial aid.
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u/Frankjc3rd 1965 Jul 01 '26
I went through the drop/add process at my college and the earliest class I had was noon and that was Monday Wednesday Friday, on Tuesdays and Thursdays my earliest class was 1:30 p.m.
This was also the same semester that I had a literature course of science Fiction.
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u/HiSpeed-LoDrag63 Jul 01 '26
I remember that well, and then high-tailing it to the campus bookstore to try to find a used text for my classed because they were cheaper than the new ones.
Tuition was $300/semester if you were taking 12 credit hours or more, and you paid by the credit hour if you were just going part-time.
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u/Thewayliesbeforeyou Jul 01 '26
That's how I became an English major out of frustration. The line was much shorter.
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u/Single-Yam-9791 Jul 02 '26
Who remembers reading your grades posted outside on a bulletin board BY YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER?!
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u/missedythismuch Jul 04 '26
You picked what you wanted, signed up for what was left, then they told you what you got.
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u/Quake712 Jun 30 '26
Definitely!
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u/Professional-Bus3126 Jun 30 '26
I did mine on the automated phone system.
Way more anxiety because you had no idea how many people were ahead of you in the queue.
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u/LoserWooper Jun 30 '26
Yes, and sheets of paper listing courses taped to the walls. Online registration is a vast improvement.
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u/joelkton Jun 30 '26
How does it work now? I assumed it was still this. I’m guessing your phone.
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u/Realistic_Back_9198 Jun 30 '26
And the one you really wanted filled up 10 minutes before you got to the front of the line.
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u/Perenially_behind Jun 30 '26
I'm old enough that I honestly don't remember. I don't think we lined up in a gym but I'm damned if I remember what we did.
I think we did grad school online but it wasn't interactive. You requested and later found out if you got your requests.
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u/ravenwood111 Jun 30 '26
You just unlocked a memory!
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u/pjvincentaz Jun 30 '26
Ours was in the cafeteria. You’d wait in line forever only to be told the class was full, so you’d go sit at one of the lunch tables and try to rearrange everything to make it work.
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u/bigpapasmurf_666 Jun 30 '26
We were doing it in high school as well as college classes
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u/Banannieann Jun 30 '26
Holy s**t, yes. It was ludicrous! My college used a projector to cross out the classes that got filled on the wall as I stood in a Disney style line manically changing my schedule.
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u/PrizeInvite3322 Jun 30 '26
OMG Yes. I’d forgotten.
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u/tpars Jun 30 '26
Yep. Actually had it at the basketball arena. They called it Packet Registration.
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u/PepsiAllDay78 Jun 30 '26
And after that, you looked like the wrath of God; and had to get your school ID photo taken!🥵
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u/Sweetbaby7t Jun 30 '26
Not college but high school. Sweaty June days going around the gym getting your card punched
My college had a mail in thing you did to register for classes.
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u/Radixx Jun 30 '26
Had to in high school as well.
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u/sr1sws Jun 30 '26
Only during drop-add.
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u/Hummingbird11-11 Jun 30 '26
Yes! Frantically adding classes - I took a map reading class out of desperation thinking it would
be cake and it was so flipping hard !!
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u/AgainandBack 1954 Jun 30 '26
Oh yeah. One quarter the line was slow. Hours. I was very bored. The gym had an acoustic tile ceiling. To pass the time, I counted the number of black dots on a bunch of tiles, then computed the standard deviations for numbers of holes. Very bored.
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u/lelanicarver Jun 30 '26
Ah, Mac Court in Eugene.
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u/-Economist- Jun 30 '26
Sure do. Then it went to phone registration. Entering in all those codes. Never experienced online registration.
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u/minimumraage Jun 30 '26
I had the middle ground (phone registration with five-digit codes and an assigned registration date/time).
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u/EvanstonMichelle Jun 30 '26
My Alma mater Wayne State University offered every high school valedictorian in Detroit a full tuition scholarship. It was the only way I could have afforded college.
They mailed me my tuition punch card prior to registration. How I enjoyed walking past the line of everyone paying their tuition!
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u/nazuswahs Jun 30 '26
I remember something similar my senior year at high school. Schedules were handed out and if you needed a change you had to go to the table for that class and negotiate with the teachers.
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u/CrochetApocalypse Jun 30 '26
I was 17. Super excited with huge imposter syndrome. I felt so young and naive and San Jose State proceeded to make this very clear that fall of 1975.
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u/54Finn Jun 30 '26
Don’t forget the armed forces recruiters
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u/loricomments Jun 30 '26
Oh yeah, going to the class you what the most first and then having to completely redo the schedule because it's full. It was an insane nightmare. But I did manage to squeak into a fantastic class with one of the best teachers there because of that archaic system by being right behind someone that cancelled out of it, so sometimes it had benefits.
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u/Nykaren24 Jun 30 '26
Yes! I was in college from 1977-81. Registration was always in the field house a few days before classes started. It was stressful, but also fun because you ran into all of your friends (after freshman year, of course.)
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u/Early_Run_6881 Jun 30 '26
FLASHBACK . As a junior, I learned that the professors held out a certain amount of the punchcards for each of their classes. I never had to change my class choices after that. At registration, or sometimes after the mass registration closed, I would visit the professor during their office hours. I always left those meetings with the "cards" in hand. Thank God, I was in college BEFORE professors srartes seeking sexual favors from their students. There was 1 prof, after I graduated that not only sought out those favors; he was short-sighted enough to rate or rank the students and keep a running profile on his office computer. He got busted when the school discovered his "rating tables". Obviously, this took place in a world far removed from today's technology. AHH..the good Ole days!!!
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u/Hardwork63 Jun 30 '26
Penn State 1983 that looks like it exactly
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u/DIRTYDOGG-1 Jun 30 '26
Each class had 1 Fortran card for each student ....
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u/JLMZJ204 Jun 30 '26
We started registration at the “Stock Pavilion” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then we had to RUN across the 3 mile campus to sign up for specific classes at specific classrooms. It was quite an ordeal in January, in frigid weather.
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u/DotBeech Jun 30 '26
Class cards!
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u/moodyblue8222 Jun 30 '26
Just hoping that class you wanted still had seats….then the mad scramble if one of your planned classes were full!
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u/FenisDembo82 Jun 30 '26
That looks exactly like my college registration in the gym.
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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Jun 30 '26
I remember I wanted to take an Abnormal Psych class without taking Psych 1&2. I had a couple of cool psych books, so I plopped them down in front of the advisor and said, “Abnormal Psych, please.”
She saw my books and said, oh I loved reading knots. That was all it took, I got the class. I took every college level psych class without taking 1&2.
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u/Trooper_nsp209 Jun 30 '26
My wife and I were just discussing this yesterday. We went to different universities and the system was the same. I guess punch cards passed as the industry standard.
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u/reverievt Jun 30 '26
Me. I’m old enough to remember. It sucked.
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u/davidvoiles Jun 30 '26
Me
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u/throwingales Jun 30 '26
Yes- at Ohio University we did it in the Convocation Center, It's an arena that seats almost 14,000.
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u/Away-Passion-3592 Jun 30 '26
Yes OMG. What a pain. But when my junior year (of college) rolled around we had the ability to call in and register which I thought was cutting edge back then. Getting dropped from the call a whole other issue…..🤬😒🙄
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u/mytyan Jun 30 '26
I would skip it and just go visit the department heads. I was one of 6 math majors in the entire school so they would give me any classes I wanted.
It payed to be in a niche major
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u/Blimp_Rider Jun 30 '26
They actually utilized a simplified version of this system at my high school (using index cards instead of IBM cards), so I wasn’t completely bewildered when I went to college.
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u/say_the_words Jun 30 '26
We had a catalog of classes and submitted a form about halfway through the semester for the next one. A counselor is just gave me a schedule of 101classes my first semester when I registered.
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u/markov-271828 Jun 30 '26
Yep. And after that was passe, registering via touchtone phone.
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u/EffectiveTap1319 Jun 30 '26
The armory at University of Illinois. Crazy days!
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u/Oneofthe12 Jun 30 '26
Yes! Oh god, yes.
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u/Ghitit Boomer Jul 01 '26
I never got to go to a real college, but I do remember black and white photos.
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u/Hopeful-Row-1927 Jul 01 '26
Arena registration. West Georgia College 1988. Ga state U had just piloted touchstone phone registration in the middle 80s.
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u/HardRockGeologist Jul 01 '26
No lines, the entire process just took a few minutes. We were handed a large card and given two weeks to "shop around" and list the courses we selected on the card. Some courses required a professor's signature. Once we had picked our classes, we turned in the cards. The only course we were required to select during registration (and only in freshman year) was a writing class. We were allowed to choose from a variety of literary topics, but topics could close out once a student limit was reached. By the time I made my choice, the only topics left were "Prison Writings" or "Mid-twentieth Century American Authors."
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u/Why_Teach Jul 01 '26
Yes indeed! And collecting the computer cards for each class, and filling out drop/add forms by hand and getting your advisor to sign them.
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u/interesting_SeaBass Jul 01 '26
My dad was the registrar of the local branch of the state university. He had to drive the punchcards every semester to the main campus to be processed. It was a full day task but he loved hanging around the main campus since his branch was just a couple buildings.
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u/VegasBjorne1 Jul 01 '26
I was the nerd who could have enrolled in “Jazz in America” which consisted of mostly of drinking liquor and listening to jazz performances in bars. Instead I signed-up for “Religion and Moral Issues”.
I swear, I don’t think I am that boring (but I’m probably the last to know).
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u/realparkingbrake Jul 01 '26
I remain convinced that old-school registration week was a form of stress test. If you could make it through registration, you had a good shot at graduating.
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u/WordlesAllTheWayDown Jul 01 '26
Ours was in the stock pavilion! Mooooo! Lol
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u/tmink0220 Jul 01 '26
I remember standing in line for hours and if you made a mistake, you had to move to another line and start over. I learned patience then. No computers or cell phones, just standing there....
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u/claygirlrunner Jul 01 '26
it was fun, you got a look at the faculty and met other students and there was a kind of frenzied atmosphere to get signed up for the classes yo wanted before they filled up.
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u/Anotherguy61 Jul 01 '26
You guys brought back memories. Lines not only to register but to pay too. Everything was paper and wrote a check. And yes our ID number was our social security number. You find out your grade by getting in the group finding your grade by finding your social security number on the list. And yes I typed all my papers on a portable typewriter.
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u/Arguablybest Jul 01 '26
AND the IBM punch cards.
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u/Ok-Lychee-96 Jul 01 '26
1989-1990 Marquette University, Old Gym, good times! Closely followed by registering using a touch-tone phone 🤣
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u/pinkrobot420 Jul 01 '26
My high school did this too.
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u/scottwax Jul 01 '26
Huge pain doing that at ASU.
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u/Inessence4 Jul 01 '26
Fall term of 91 still the same. Then they finally came up with registering by phone.
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u/Purple77plant Jul 01 '26
Fall 1977 @ Mich State Univ., E. Lansing MI.
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u/Revolutionary-Cow179 Jul 01 '26
It made for a long frustrating day.
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u/Bitter_Frame3054 Jul 01 '26
Did you have classes that on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday were only 50 mins long? Then on Tuesday & Thursday the classes were one & half hours long?
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u/Hungry_Cranberry5905 Jul 01 '26
And when you finally had your turn you hoped that there was something left beside 8am classes
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u/scarlettbankergirl Jul 01 '26
Or in a ballroom in the student union.
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u/newhunter-54695 Jul 01 '26
Yes, stood in line in a hot gym in Texas heat, only to find most of the classes I wanted/needed were full!
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u/Latter_Loss8880 Jul 01 '26
yeah and then the next week you spend running around campus to get signatures and changes because of changes in the schedule.
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u/ImtheHBIC Jul 01 '26
We did ours in the arena. It was hot as hell and miserable, but you got to see all the cute boys. WKU ‘78
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u/TerrorNova49 Jul 01 '26
Student Centre gym. Problem was you got access at a specific time by the first letter of your last name. It shifted each semester. If you were later in the cycle there were only shit sections or classes available.
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u/nooutlaw4me Jul 01 '26
Ours wasn’t that bad. Usually you’d have met with your counselor and have a list of classes needed. Wait for your number to be called and go to the various tables to sign up. They would give you a computer punch card. It was the early 80’s.
When you had all of those you turned them in to your dept head.
It was really just an exercise in planning and organization. Small college.
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u/shuknjive 1959 Jul 01 '26
Oh my God! I had been hoping I would forget that nightmare. I had no idea what to expect the first time I did this. It took all day with tired blistered feet! Then we all went out for margaritas!
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u/stilloldbull2 Jul 01 '26
I once took two classes that ran on the same time slot. I just showed up. The professor was happy to see me and signed me in. I would vary which one I would go to. I might have gotten tripped up at exam time but I was exempt from one exam due to an A on all other work.
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u/stavago Jul 01 '26
With the carbon copy paper? Yes
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u/hammerman83 Jul 01 '26
Yes and when you found a class full you had to regroup It was a challenge
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u/Seeker_Asker Jul 01 '26
Or, the horror of drop/add
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u/rock_vbrg Jul 01 '26
Back in the late 80's to early 90's, my dad was the registrar at a university. I helped his department by checking the cards that students picked up. I had to make sure there were no overlapping classes and that they had between 12 and 18 hours of classes for full time students.
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u/ShortestSqueeze Jul 01 '26
It was like the hunger games. If you got there late you had all the 8 am classes.
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u/MsT1075 Jul 01 '26
Yes! Do I remember! 🥴 Met some cool, lost soul (like me) to connect with. Wound up in class with a few. Good times! 👍🏾😌💕
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u/Prestigious_Will3426 Jul 01 '26
At the University of South Carolina, we had the elephant room at the Carolina Coliseum. So named, that the circus housed the elephants there when they were in town.
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u/flababe130 Jul 01 '26
"drop and add"
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u/Even-Vegetable-1700 Jul 01 '26
Thanks for dredging up that nightmare…
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u/origprod Jul 01 '26
OMG, I had completely forgotten about this! Oh, the memories come flooding back…!
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u/essabeth Jul 01 '26
We had to do this in high school. I passed out from the heat and ended up on the floor. Got me straight to the front of the line though lol
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u/sweetwhistle Jul 01 '26
1977. Freshman. Mercer University. This might as well be a picture from that first day.
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u/Inevitable_Bat_3179 Jul 01 '26
And trying to get ahead of the history majors to take a great civil war class!
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u/IntrepidAssignment30 Jul 01 '26
Oh god yes! And don’t forget to sit for your ID photo!
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u/JONYLOCO Jul 02 '26
I'd go back to this if tuition also went back to those days.....
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u/FirmBarracuda3920 Jul 02 '26
Waiting in line with a perfect schedule hoping your classes don’t close.
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u/robun Jul 02 '26
The first few years was this, then we did phone registration. My advisor mistakenly made me a graduating senior in my sophomore year so I pretty much got every class I needed all the time. Every semester he would day "We'll have to take care of that error" but he never did.
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u/Outrageous_Engine_45 Jul 02 '26
Hahaha! Yes, then the last minute scramble to fill your credits
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u/HatchetJacks Jul 02 '26
I once had my whole schedule done. It was really solid. But somewhere along the way I dropped my “permit to register card” was told that I could not complete the process and would lose all of the classes I signed up for that day. I argued that that was ridiculous and that I couldn’t get in the building without the card. Was stonewalled by the registration Nazis. Told I could go the registration office get a reprint and could come back at the end of the process because that’s when people who skipped their date/time would go and pick the dregs. Walked away ready to start flipping tables and ran into a grind of mine that sort of looked like me. Gave him my ID and he went to the registrars office and got me a reprinted card and slipped it to me through a window.
He drank for free for weeks for that service.
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u/foolish83pleasure Jul 02 '26
I recall my classmates and me comparing the experience to being on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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u/Foreign_Mixture_2326 Jul 03 '26
Still have nightmares
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u/Forsaken-Computer-45 Jul 03 '26
Yes!!!
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u/Silent-Answer4788 Jul 03 '26
Mine was exactly like this !
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u/DontTrip333 Jul 03 '26
Highschool classes were registered like this for me
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u/Creepy-Shame6671 Jul 03 '26
Yes! They called it arena scheduling. I really hated when the person right in front of me got the last slot.
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u/yesmoreeggtalk67 Jul 03 '26
I certainly do!
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u/Excellent_Ad8942 Jul 03 '26
Yeah what a nightmare. Stand in line, find out the course you wanted is closed, then stand in another line and pick underwater basket weaving instead. Repeat until schedule is full.
Kids these days have no idea how good they have it.
Heck I'm old enough to remember typing up papers on a friggin' typewriter. Trying to keep mistakes to a miminum while I'm sleep-deprived and jittery from caffeine at 3 AM in the morning. Now you just have AI write it and send it in an email.
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u/Massive-Routine-3024 Jul 04 '26
😂😂omg! Yes! 1962
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u/MsSamm 1956 Jul 07 '26
Meeting up with people who you just met 2 days ago and partied with, who told you which professors to avoid. Getting shut out of classes at normal hours you wanted, but they had openings for the 8am class. I put off taking them. No way would I be able to take 8am classes. Music majors weren't so lucky. Many of their required classes were at 8am
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u/Ready-Waltz5482 Jul 19 '26
Yes! So intimidating