Management

Management is such an important sector in life. No wonder management school in university is always overflowing with applications and crowded with students. I am in a university that specializes in management. A university that is suppose to be well managed and organized since most of the courses offered are management courses. You can be well prepared to be badly disappointed with your expectation.

I had so much trouble this semester by trying to get the timetable right. We are allowed to arrange our own timetable, I guess they are training our time management skills here. Sounds like a good training? Wait for the horror.

There were rumours saying that we were not supposed to take a particular paper. For confirmation, a friend and I consulted the staff in the faculty about it and was told to follow what our guidebook had stated. Of course, the guidebook said it was compulsory to do that paper. We added that paper into the timetable. When we went to the class, we were told that we are suppose to do another paper instead of this. Trying to be really safe, we went to the student affair department to clear things up and get the correct information, just to find out that there are over 200 people in the queue. With the next class in line, we had no choice but to leave.

When it comes to university, prerequisite papers are not alien. They seem to be your best friend as they are everywhere. Without these papers we cannot pursue to the next. The issue? Our timetable was arranged by the university during our first semester and I knew that I didn’t get some prerequisite papers that should have been the priority. I went to the faculty and was kicked around yet didn’t manage to add those papers in the end of the day. Come to second semester, I added one of the subject that didn’t have a prerequisite as stated in the guidebook. However it was automatically dropped for I didn’t do the supposedly non-existent prerequisite paper. This particular paper is a prerequisite to many of my course paper which I couldn’t do. Therefore, in this semester I didn’t have much variety on the papers I want to do. Thankfully I have enough papers to cover my credit hour.

Another trouble came up as our guidebook was printed with the wrong code for some paper, we couldn’t add them due to the wrong code provided. We only found out about it after some sharing of information with other people.

Should all this kind of mismanagement happen? In the end of the day, we are the victims. I would really appreciate it if the management go through the guidebook thoroughly and correct the mistakes during our orientation week or at least be updated to provide us with the right information. I am so disappointed with my own expectation towards the management.