Class of 2013: you can start planning the rest of your lives now.

Admit it — classroom matters.

You really want to take a class in the new Metcalf Auditorium, especially if you had a class in the old one, but you have no interest in CLPS. Or perhaps you have been trying to find an excuse to spend time in the Granoff Center. Or maybe you just really like Smitty B 106.

Whatever the case, you may have been frustrated that Banner will not let you search for classes by room. But it’s cool, we’ve got a solution for you!

All you have to do is check out this wonderful page on the Registrar’s website. It lists the classrooms for every course this semester. Then use the “find” feature on your web browser to find the classroom you’re looking for, and that will give you all the results. For example, searching for “Metcalf Chemical Laboratory AUD” — their name for Metcalf Auditorium — will show you that if CLPS just isn’t your thing, you can always take Bio 50 (Cell and Molecular Biology), Applied Math 65 (Essential Statistics), Soc 17 (The Family), or Soc 162 (Globalization and Social Conflict).

It’s a mystery why Banner doesn’t do this, but then again, Banner doesn’t do lots of things…

Banner seems to be facing some technical difficulties this morning…we’ll let you know when it’s back up!

UPDATE: At roughly 8:45 am this morning banner went from temporarily unavailable to available. Quiet, morning-appropriate cheers pervade the campus.

With Pre-registration season once again upon us, it’s that time of the year when Brown students must buckle down and undertake the arduous task of actually being forced to think about what academic pursuits they’re going to pursue three months from now…

Seniors are most likely coming to the horrible realization that the only thing separating them from their job at Goldman Bain the local McDonald’s is four more credits and what’s sure to be the most epic graduation of the last decade. Meanwhile, juniors are too busy raging studying abroad to even remember to register (put down the two Euro bottle of wine and your camera for one second, I promise you’ll still be able to document your Eurotrips on Facebook when pre-registration is over).

Further down the totem pole, sophomores are surely too depressed or disenchanted with school to even open their computer, while the freshmen are once again asking: what the hell is a pin, and where do I get one?

With that in mind, we couldn’t help but wonder if searching through Banner’s extensive course listings could provide us with some much-needed guidance, helping us to better navigate this chaotic and contemplative time. Though we found little in the way of useful life advice, what we did find were some telling, if not eerily accurate, musings hidden within the inner recesses of Banner’s server.

On Sex…

HIST1973Y: Children and Childhood in America; CLPS0610: Children’s Thinking; AMCV1904H: The Teen Age; ENGN0510: Electricity and Magnetism; COLT0610D: Rites of Passage; GNSS1960N Theories and Politics of Sexual Consent; APMA2630: Theory of Probability; HIST1750: The Intimate State; MUSC0660: Sacred Harp/Shape-Note Singing; ENGN0040: Dynamics and Vibrations, AMCV1903P: Please, Please Me; ENGN1710: Heat and Mass Transfer; APMA2420: Fluid Dynamics II; AMC1903G: Oral History and Community Memory; RUSS1450: Love, Adultery, and Sexuality; PHIL0990X: Conditionals, APMA1360: Topics in Chaotic Dynamics; APMA2110: Real Analysis;  EDUC1260: Emotion, Cognition, Education  [Read more →]

Now that you’ve already written off your fall classes (come on, admit it), it’s time for bigger and better things. This just in: Banner now has Spring 2011 up and ready for viewing.

Ever wonder how long it’ll take people to forget that you NC’d your freshman seminar?  Well, we’ve got some bad news.  According to Banner, that little tidbit will rest in the archives of the Registrar until 2012 for eternity.

Thanks for the info, tipster Tiffany!  Have you noticed a wacky easter egg hidden in the mysterious labyrinth that is Brown’s online presence?  Holler at us at blog@browndailyherald.com.

It’s a slow news day, but you can always count on Banner to provide some entertainment. Updating your address for the summer? You have lots of flexibility—like having your mail sent back to the 1980s.

Wait, maybe The Simpsons was on to something.

all we want to do is enjoy our senior year:

At just seconds past 8 a.m., panic set in as juniors realized BANNER WOULD NOT WORK.

Rising seniors will preregister for fall courses on 4/20, a scheduling conflict which has the potential to lead to some … well-founded decision making.

Though some juniors may surprise themselves with the courses that wander into their snazzy new shopping carts, the Registrar may also be confused by the unusual enrollment numbers some unexpected classes may receive. Because honestly, why take that final concentration requirement when tropical delights and intelligent robots are on the table?

If you were planning to register for these courses for legitimate academic reasons, have those CRNs already copy-and-pasted because in honor of one of Brown’s favorite holidays, these classes are going to go like the Dorito’s shelf at Jo’s.

AWAS1600: “Astronomy Before the Telescope”

CLAS1120G: “The Idea of Self”

COLT1430T: “Latin American Death Trip”

CSCI1480: “Building Intelligent Robots”

EAST1880C: “Zen Meditation in China, Korea, and Japan”

ENGN1610: “Image Understanding”

GEOL0050: “Mars, Moon, and the Earth”

GRMN2320C: “Enlightened Laughter”

HMAN2970B: “And What About the Human?”

PHYS1250: “Stellar Structure and the Interstate Stellar Medium”

POBS0970: “Tropical Delights”

RELS0030: “The Apocalyptic Imagination”