Part of the education at GA Tech when I was there (late 70s -early 80s) was figuring out how to beat the system to get those Hollerith cards to get a decent schedule. Might have been a more important part of the education than some of the classes.
If you did things the way you were nominally supposed to, you probably weren’t getting a decent schedule.
Yep, sounds familiar. There was a strategy to it, but I’ve forgotten what it was. It wasn’t so bad for me because I got all of my 100 level required courses out of the way at community college first. But I seem to recall some horse-trading with others in My major.
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