You may remember a previous post in which I waxed enthusiastic about our new online registration system. While I still think getting the program launched in the first place is a major coup for an office without any technical support, there have been a few -- how shall I say it -- blips as we adjust to the new system, particularly the online booking for off-campus interviews. Like, say, an entire day of New Jersey interviews appearing fully booked when in fact vacant. Or the fact that you can spend ten minutes entering all your personal information into the computer, only to discover that the day of interviews you wanted is fully booked, and if you select a different day, you'll have to enter all of that same information again. Aggravating.
The one thing that hasn't changed is that in the more popular cities -- Denver, San Diego, Seattle, Washington DC -- the interviews, no matter how many we offer, book next to instantly and result in a lot of frustrated phone calls and e-mails. We've had to stop doing counselor interviews altogether in San Francisco, because even sixty interview slots still yielded a waitlist of forty.
In other news, I depart tomorrow for my home state of New Jersey, for a whirlwind four-day-seven-school-visit-sixteen-interview-and-hopefully-time-for-a-load-of-laundry visit, and thence directly to Minnesota, for which I am packing an umbrella, fleece scarf, and sunglasses, because the ten-day forecast shows everything from highs of 71 to lows of freezing, and how am I supposed to dress for that? Still, despite the suitcase quandary, I'm eager to go see some autumn, because we just don't have that season here in SoCal. Minneapolis, I am counting on you for some pretty fall leaves and pumpkin spice lattes.
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