After a grudging second trip around campus, I was then redirected back to the Student Services Complex to pay the bogus $100 late fee--$50 of which is for late enrollment and $50 is for late registration, according to Brown (Assistant Vice Chancellor of Admissions and Enrollment).
"Registration in a quarter is a two-step process; students enroll in classes, but they are not officially registered until they pay fees," she said.
So, by that logic, students pay a fee in order to pay a fee. Apparently, they also pay a fee for forgetting to pay a fee on the original fee. Somewhere in northern California, the UC Board of Regents is laughing manically while its bank account becomes engorged with unnecessary taxes and students' tears.
An excerpt from The UCSD Guardian
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Comments (3)
i'm glad i woke up from that nightmare 2 years ago..
about the computers... i guess you should reformat your computer before you sell it!
here's what i found on their website:
"You don’t have to worry about the confidentiality of the information you submit to us; we are a registered member of the “Verisign Secured Seal Program” — an industry leader in SSL encryption."
Q. I have sensitive information stored on my laptop's hard drive. Should I erase it myself?
A. We fully erase and reformat each and every hard disk we receive before processing a laptop any further
but anyhow, if you know how to reformat, i think it's safer to reformat yourself before you put it in someone else's hands!