“It’s been a lot easier to get classes, I’ve noticed. I’m on waitlists for a lot of them and I got most of them.†– Caroline Sadorra, Music Production
“I’ve gotten a lot more classes. It’s only my second term and I have 16.3 units so it’s definitely affected me pretty well. I was like ‘Sweet!’†– Jessie Pinon, Sociology
“I do think that it’s good though because last semester it was really crowded and a lot of students didn’t get classes. I think that it’s kind of encouraging to come back. I think that’s good.†– Angie Perez, Psychology
“Personally it hasn’t affected me because I’ve added the classes I needed. I’m pretty sure it helped a lot of students because of the budget cuts. That means students were able to add classes so it makes things easier for them.†– Philip Taing, Business
“An addition of seats? I haven’t really noticed.†– Frank Murphy, Music
“It hasn’t helped at all because I’m still trying to crash classes. The tough part is finding major classes. They added 7,000 [seats] but they couldn’t add Biology 1A.†– Khalil Jammal, Neuroscience
“It gives me an opportunity to get more classes because I couldn’t get any last semester. It’s made it a lot easier.†– Princesa Garcia, Undecided
“It has not affected me in any way because I have classes that [keep me] here until 10 p.m., so no one knew about those 7,000 seats and one of them was me. Honestly it hasn’t affected me.†– Yanni Joseph, Anthropology and Theatre Arts
“Well I got most of my classes through Pathways so I [was] basically guaranteed admission to most of my classes so not very much.†– Josiah Ruberry, Microbiology
One Reply to “VOICES: How has the addition of 7,000 more seats into spring semester class sections affected you?”
Our classes are half empty because all of a sudden they added a bunch of classes. I don’t know how that’s supposed to be cost-effective. It also makes our classes a little boring because there are only 9-10 students in them.
Our classes are half empty because all of a sudden they added a bunch of classes. I don’t know how that’s supposed to be cost-effective. It also makes our classes a little boring because there are only 9-10 students in them.