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Registration Daze

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Posted on January 8, 2026 by Alumni

Alumni

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Sometimes, filling your class schedule was like seeking a ticket at a sold-out Taylor Swift concert.

You had to be there. And be there. And there. So went registration during 麻豆直播鈥檚 early decades. Melissa Wold 鈥�75, 鈥�80 remembers the experience, as first a student (bachelor鈥檚 in political science, master鈥檚 in public administration), then a staff academic adviser for the Pat Capps Covey College of Allied Health Professions and eventually as registrar before retiring in 2013.

When the first photo was taken in 1968 or 鈥�69, departments set up tables in the Jag Gym. Boxes, one per class, contained computer punch cards that acted as class admission tickets. When the box was empty, the class was full.

To get in anyway, you needed to beg the professor for an override. Or, like a music fan seeking a scalper outside a sold-out concert, you could look for a student with a card you needed.

鈥淚鈥檓 sure there were side deals going on,鈥� Wold says, laughing. 鈥淚鈥檓 sure money was being handed over.鈥�

By about 1980, computers began to simplify the procedure. Rows of terminals in the upstairs Ballroom at the Student Center replaced the tables. Students trained by the registrar鈥檚 office operated the machines.

Wold remembers one student who lay on the floor and said he wouldn鈥檛 move till he got the schedule he wanted. (It didn鈥檛 work.)

Mostly, though, everyone handled the experience with, if not contentment, at least quiet resignation. 鈥淭hey gritted their teeth,鈥� Wold says, 鈥渁nd they got through it.鈥�

 

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