Hey guess what, guys! Guess what! Give up? Do ya? Do you give up yet? OK, so we just got this e-mail (you probably got it, too, if you have a Calmail account) giving us some great news about changes to Tele-BEARS, effective for fall! Get excited because they’re totes awesome! Like, totes!!!

Alright, fine. We were kidding. The changes kind of stink. read more »

Wow, already? The spring 2009 schedule of classes is up (thanks, LiveJournal). Of course, being so early in the game, there’s not much info besides the class title and professor. Nevertheless, it’s never too early to start your scheming.

On Oct. 6, you’ll find out your Phase I allotted time on Tele-BEARS (didn’t we just drop our last class?). Phase I will start Oct. 20, with Phase II following up on Nov. 12. Scary, ain’t it?

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Spring 2009 [Online Schedule of Classes]
via UCB LJ

If you’re still waiting for your Tele-BEARS Phase II to roll around (or are still freaking out about signing up for only eight units), you will cry for joy when you use Aman’s Interface to Berkeley’s Online Schedule. It’s easy to use, will map out your schedule and will save all those course control numbers you always lose.

1. Make Sure You Search for the Appropriate Semester Classes

Sometimes the interface is stuck on spring when you need fall. Click on “online schedule of classes,” then “fall 2008.”

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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]