It’s that time again, that time when Tele-BEARS fucks you over no matter how early your phases start. We were surprised when the Spring 2008 class schedule came out, and now, after failing our midterms, we’re still too traumatized to find the will to carry on.

Phase I of Tele-BEARS starts Oct. 22 and ends Nov. 12. Phase II picks up Nov. 13 and ends ways away on Jan. 13. You can check out your date of doom on Bear Facts.

Mark your calendars, and either celebrate the gift of senior standing or cry yourself to sleep knowing that all your classes will be full even by the start of your Phase I. Cheer up, kid—it gets better.

Actually, that’s totally a lie.

Earlier: Spring 2008 Schedule Up (And We Are Trying Hard Not to Use Exclamation Points)

The Daily Cal tells us that the waitlist deletions problem with Tele-BEARS we mentioned yesterday affected about 7,000 students. Oops.

Acting registrar Walter Wong Information Service and Technology mainframe manager George Suennen summed it well:

bq. “There have been little glitches here and there, but this one’s pretty big,” he said.

The Tele-BEARS computer is about 30 years old. The deletions occurred while trying to adjust waitlists for summer classes. It appears they inadvertently adjust fall waitlists as well.

Glitch on Tele-BEARS Wipes Class Waitlists [Daily Cal]
Earlier: Tele-BEARS Finds a New Way to Really Fuck You Over

Random appointment times are now so passe as students got a taste of a nastier problem: waitlist deletions. In an e-mail to students, the university wrote:

bq. We’re writing to alert you of a problem that occurred with waiting lists for Fall 2007: all waiting list enrollments were inadvertently deleted from students’ records over this past weekend. IST programmers are in the process of restoring all waiting list enrollments to the database, which will take up the remainder of the day today.

To keep it short, this has incited much debate and whining, probably justified, on the Livejournal community.

One commenter writes:

bq. I called the Registrar’s Office - All they said was go on and re-sign up during open hours.

bq. LAME. I was #1. Those bitches.

Bitches, indeed. But they’re apparently working on it as the e-mail also said waitlists have been shut down today so that they can attempt to restore them. Result: hard to say.

Discussion:
Telebears not working? [Livejournal Community]
Telebears sucks. [Livejournal Community]
Email from the registrar regarding telebears [Livejournal Community]