Dear CSE students:
These are some wild times that we are living through right now. You’ve received a cascade of messages about the fast changing landscape we are all confronting right now. I hope that this email will follow on to the one Magda sent out yesterday with some additional relevant information. Here are some key messages we need you all to hear:
- Many students are asking: “Can I be overloaded into the course I want now that everything is online?”
- The answer, generally speaking, is no, and here’s why. Just because we don’t have room restrictions, doesn’t mean we don’t have other types of resource restrictions, mainly TA’s. While we are actively working on adding more space to several of our courses, we will not be ramping up space in a big way. The exception is if you are trying to graduate in spring and can’t get into a course you need to graduate. In that case, you should reach out to ugrad-advisor@cs with your unique situation. Everyone else should continue to monitor the NotifyUW system. I do expect students will drop classes in the first week as they do every quarter.
- We are also receiving questions from students asking if they can register for courses that meet at the same time. Since not every instructor will be recording lectures, the general answer to this is also no. There are exceptions in rare situations, but you need to work that out directly with faculty using the Registration Transaction Form .
- We will be having ‘virtual quick questions’ during spring quarter. You’ll receive information later this week on how to access that but you will need to have access to your Gmail chat function using your @cs email address. If you’re bored at home (and yes, you really SHOULD be staying at home), please get that set up and working as soon as possible. We will be sending the Zoom links for dropins to your @cs chat accounts when you are up next in the queue.
- Please note in Magda’s email there was a message about the UW Laptop Lending program. You needed to fill that out by today at noon, so hopefully you already did that. Additionally, please reach out directly to advising at ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu if you do not think you can participate in spring courses due to limitations in your available technology. We are committed to working with you to find a way to make next quarter as accessible as possible
- Many of you are asking if the CSE graduation event will take place. At this point, we do not have any information on that subject. We’ll certainly let you know as soon as we do, but at this point we are focused on getting spring quarter off to a good start.
- We appreciate your patience as your advising team does everything we can to address all the questions that our constantly changing situation is bringing forward. We will do our best to be there for you as we always are in the best of times.
Thank you and stay tuned for further updates.
Sincerely,
CSE Advising: Crystal, Jenifer, Maggie, Leslie, Chelsea, Hector, Chloe and Pim