You've been a good friend. Rarely slacking at your job, many students have grown to enjoy your ever expanding presence with this University, especially, since we can enroll online with your help, allowing many of us the opportunity of arriving on campus a day later.

But, now I find that you've been delinquent in one of your duties, and I'm lost for words at your conduct.

During the Christmas break, instead of minding the controls for online registration, you jetted off to the Caribbean and left many students in the dark. You had the responsibility to remain online and functional throughout the break so students could have second thoughts and rearrange their schedules, but you blew it.

Without even leaving a note on your window saying you'd skipped town, for me at least, you left on a three week run of debauchery. Sure, other key components of your website worked fine for me like basic info, grade history or fall schedule, but this info was worthless to me and was most likely supplied by the army of chimps you have at your command. What I really wanted to work on was registration, but since you were not around, I too was left in the dark.

Because I did not know you wouldn't be returning during the break, I awoke and sat like a possessed fool at my computer waiting for the registration page to load. After about a week of this, I thought maybe something was wrong with my mom's deluxe Aptiva 486 and tried another computer but nothing would work. I finally ended up at the local library and still nothing would happen. Everyday, until I finally became indifferent on the subject, I thought incessantly on how delinquent you were acting and plotted your doom being some virus or other catastrophe that would equal the energy and determination what should have been the simple task of adding a class or two.

You maybe wondering why I was so fanatical about registering and the answer is simple: classes fill up (even orgo lab as I found out). As it turned out, once you were finally on the job, the class I wanted simply wasn't available anymore through the website. Only through begging and stealing was I able to finally complete my schedule.

Even now, I hear you are still causing a ruckus by dropping people from their classes or labs or not letting others add a class simply because you are too tired from sunbathing for three weeks to care.

Perhaps you're not entirely the culprit. OIT should have shackled you down or perhaps found a way to bring you home sooner. I just hope I never have the same problems again but then again that's doubtful.

Hope you heal soon,

Justin

• A letter to Irishlink