Disorganisation

King's College London is TERRIBLY disorganised.

For an institution that has to do timetables so much and so often, they are disgracefully bad at it.

Firstly, there is no central system that organises timetables. Each department publishes its own timetables and students have to compile their own timetable. Maybe I am spoilt with Allocate+, so even though it's a little more trouble to make your own timetable, it's not too bad. I can cope with that. (Even though the departments do not release those timetables very far ahead of classes starting, which is also frustrating)

But then there are multiple tutes for each subject, and as Study Abroad students we get to nominate which one we want to attend. Local and international students just get given a time slot and can change only if they have a clash with something else. We had to email the department administrator with our preferred tute, and presumably they would get back to us about which one we'd been allocated. But no. More than a week after I'd emailed them, and on the day that the tutes were supposed to be, I was told to "just go to the one that you emailed me with", and my friends who hadn't emailed were just told to "go to any one for this week", because the list of names in the narrow corridor of the department office didn't have the names of study abroad students. (Yeah, that's right, every single student has to go by that office in person to check what tutes they've been allocated. Surely it would be easier to just upload it onto blackboard). Revised lists are supposed to go up on Friday.

And quite apart from that, the lectures and tutes always seem to be scheduled in rooms that are too small, and if you're late you have to sit on the floor. In fact, the lecture theatre for last monday's Communication Skills lecture was wayyyy too small, and they changed it to a bigger room for today, which was still too small. Fail whale.