The Unintentional Flashmob of ROSI and steps to take to get into the courses you want!

For the record, it was completely unintentional, but the Repository of Student Information (AKA: ROSI) was flashmobbed today, in computer terms. For those who don't know what a flashmob is, Wikipedia is your best friend. Although, what happened is, it was for a website. At the university I'm at, and I'm sure it's for others as well, you apply for courses online through a student repository that is totally automated.

I had applied for my courses already, but for some other courses which were reserved for specialists (*cough* HMB303 *cough* HMB304). Anyhow, the priority to specialists were removed at 6AM today and anybody could apply for the courses now.

Now, when it came to applying, oh lordy! Firstly, I log into ROSI a few moments before 6AM, and knowing that there could be a backlog, I copied the course code so I could constantly paste in the code over and over again until I got it. The spaces in the course went from 13, right before 6AM to 7 spots, when I was able to get through. I took one spot and by 6:03, there were no more spots left.

Next up, HMB304, the course with only 3 spots left for the taking. I repeated the standard procedure now to make it through and took my spot. It was then that I took my fist, raised in victory like Kimi Raikkonen winning the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix after going from worst to first! It felt like a true victory for me.

Anyhow, the videos about the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix are up on Youtube, and I realized that it's best to watch an F1 race in Spanish since they go wild at any passing, and not the British sort of wild, which I find immensely boring (Since they just let out a big "OH!!!")! If you're interested in the slightest of seeing an F1 race in Spanish, check out this clip.