My Run-In with Administratium

I did my enrolment on Tuesday and Wednesday, thus making me officially an ANU student for this semester. But the enrolment was far from smooth. Firstly, the first counter was a little messy, with me lining up at a queue for international students for fifteen minutes before realising that I was supposed to queue at another counter for exchange students (which was hidden at the corner behind that snaking queue I was in). Then, for some horribly odd reason, the course advice booth for the College of Science was totally crowded while the others were pretty empty. I had to wait an hour before it was my turn.

When I first applied for exchange, I had to put down a list of courses I intend to take. Two of them were rejected, and there was one I didn't want to take. The vice-dean attending to me told me to seek departmental approval, which leads me to go all the way to the Physics Department, just to find out it deserted. By then, I had enough and decided to put things aside for the time being. The next day, I talked to someone in the department, who told me to return sometime later as the head of department would be back and he may help me. So I thought I might as well try and complete my enrolment first, but it turns out that another person who attended to me said there was no need to "approve" the courses I need to take so long NUS does so. Guess I went to the wrong guy in the first day...

Well, anyway, at least these administrative hell in over for the time being. Guess administratium is pervasive globally.