By the time Nicole Bobiney got back to her Emmons Hall room, it was too late in the day for her to switch her classes.
"I had a lot of problems with it," the psychology freshman said. "I had to wait a day after I met with my adviser."
Many students have found themselves in the same situation as Bobiney - trying to switch courses electronically but finding the computer system has closed for the night.
But ASMSU is trying to help out students in scheduling despair.
MSU's undergraduate student government is encouraging the university to switch the computer enrollment hours from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. to 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
A change in weekend hours has not been discussed. Enrollment hours for the weekend are from 8 a.m. on Saturday until 8 p.m. Sunday.
"The time frame can be flexible, but that is the time frame we would like to see," said Adam Raezler, Academic Assembly representative for James Madison College. "The goal is to get more hours at night than in the morning."
The possibility of extended hours sounds like a good idea to finance junior Yazad Lala.
"Extended hours wouldn't hurt," he said. "Some people have early classes and they don't have time to schedule courses."
But increasing enrollment usage hours has to be balanced with the needs of other main frame system services on campus, said Linda Stanford, Assistant Provost for Academic Services and University Registrar.
"We're doing electronic grades this semester and you can't do everything at once," she said. The university is posting all grades online instead of printing out hard copy report cards for every student.
Stanford also said the university is working on transferring the enrollment system from Telnet to a Web site.
"Web would be available more hours," she said.
Faster speed and good navigation are also factors being considered for the new system, Stanford said.
But students are still divided on whether the new system would be more beneficial.
Lala said he would support the university if it could provide an improved system.
"If they have a better way that would be great," he said.
But Bobiney said as long as the hours improve, she doesn't care what it looks like.
"It might be more convenient, but it's not terrible the way it is," she said.
