Guys, Im in the last semester of Beta year, it is obvious that many of the students faced the online subject registration problem. Here's the thing I realize since yesterday, MMU opened the registration earlier for the new the intake students. To my surprise, I dont know FOM did this purposely or just PURE accident, the system actually recognize the student's online registration based on their ID. For my batch of students, the ID starts with 110XXXXX, whereas the new students have ID starts with 112XXXXXX. As I have many friends from June intake and this October intake, they did not seem to have problem at all. More surprisingly, my June intake friends who are considered to be OLD students already GOT all the subject they wanted even though the ONLINE SYSTEM showed class section FULL. The bulletin always posted announcement saying MMU had to be fair to new intake student, yet the old students couldnt register properly. I planned my timetable 4 times, it was ok because when it came to MMU, I know I should not demand much already. But the thing is even though I manage to plan a terrible timetable, I COULD NOT register all the subjects. I am following the course structure and Im taking 4 years degree. When will I be able to graduate if this happens again and again in the future? FOM pushed us to do manual registration by getting the signature from the lecturers, yet the lecturers say they do not want to accept any more students. But, we are FOM student and following the course structure, FOM does not seem to bother our problem, FOM staff merely scolds us and ends everything with the lecturers ''have to sign no matter what'' and asks us to leave. Again, the lecturer will just scold and kick us out of the office.
So, my question is if FOM doesnt solve the problem, and MMU has limited resources(limited lecturers to teach), why does MMU keep on accepting new students? Then, with the limited space, old students are blocked from registering, news students take all the place? If you think I make up the whole story, I should tell you that, there are TWO online links that direct you to the registration of course. New students are using the second link, in which the system was opened for registration many days before our old student's registration. Our old ID can never get accessed through the second link, made specially for new ID student. Old students can only use the first link to register and the system show FULL all the time. New students have the special right, when the class sections are full, they are able to get the VIP seats by STILL registering that slots.
Im not here to blame, I just wish to know that in your experience, does this always happen? or does it happen only to my batch, and will it continue to happen to us in the future? If you know something about this and if you think Im wrong please correct me, so atleast I know MMU is not that terrible. I met my advisor yesterday because I have made up my mind to quit MMU(if you think Im too emotional), I know every university will have the management problem, but what I mind so much is that, other majors can take up to 8 subjects. And we? We can only register 5 subjects. Course structure allows us to take 6 anyway. The lecturers kick us, FOM does not bother our problem, ERU emphasizes the need of getting the stamp and signature from FOM. I am already extending 1 semester just because MMU blocked my batch of students from taking extra subject. My batch was all naive last time, we did not know what did it mean when FOM allowed us to take only 1 subject. Therefore, we never went for complain. Here's the problem, if FOM did not open subject for us, and asked us to follow june intake when our batch was march intake, why does fom open march intake? Why not just open June intake and could have asked us to wait for that June intake, instead of binding us in MMU? So far, MMU is planning to keep all the new stundets to make more money and FOM does not seem to allow the old student to take more subjects. This is the only conclusion I can make to explain everything. I hope I am wrong anyway. As I said earlier, I am in my 3rd semester of Beta year, meaning that I have experienced this 3 situation times. This is my 3rd time.. I dont think MMU has the right channels for students like us to voice out our mind, if you think yes and there are many, then you are wrong. I myself can name some of them, but will they help us? We tried and nothing happened. Do you expect us to do this again and again? No way, Im here to study. If tried once, twice and thrice and the attempts did not change a thing, then it isnt our problem for not trying harder. Perhaps changing university is the correct initiative. MMU is focusing on getting more and more students, with so few lecturer, the seats are reserved to the news students. And old students are being pushed aside, MMU knows that we are bound to stay in MMU because it knows that we have wasted some years in MMU and nobody is willing to quit MMU just like that. We will get nothing if doing so. As a result, we are taking all these problems. I went to meet my advisor about the procedure of quitting MMU. My advisor said my decision was unwise and asked me to stay instead. I insisted that I wanted to quit but my advisor was very patient and did not tell me anything about quitting stuff. So, if you happen to know the procedures of quitting MMU, please roughly tell me. I will discuss with my family. Thanks