<p>why for god sake most of the classes that i have to take are at the same time! it doesn’t make any sense. I had the same problem last quarter. I ended up being in a class that has 4 students only! who plans the classes!</p>
<p>I think they decide classes (with times?) within their own departments. Were they all in your major? =(</p>
<p>yes. it bothers me a lot because i wont be able to take classes that i really interested in. also it is wasting funds. it hurts me in a personal level when a 60 people class has only 18 and another class has 4 students. It also affect classes that you can the in the following quarters!</p>
<p>:( You should talk to the advisors (I doubt professors have too much authority over exactly what time they teach …) about classes that are held at the same time. </p>
<p>They should have at least the classes and their prereqs at the same time (nobody would be taking both classes that way, unless they wanted to retake the prereq!).</p>
<p>Funny thing, I was reading a book by a professor from Stanford who was discussing a conversation that he had with the then Provost of that University (incidentally it had to be Condoleeza Rice because of the timing of the book, but that doesn’t matter really) in which the Provost was explaining to him, as they walked through the nearly deserted campus at about 4pm, that they didn’t have enough classrooms to fit all of the course offerings. The reason being is that the Professors decide what hours they want to work and that they tend to show up to work after rush hour and leave before rush hour (once they are tenured, that is).</p>
<p>I would assume that would be a similar situation at the UW.</p>