By Courtney Howarth

A final year straight-Law student is feeling nothing but disappointment as her delayed class registration went off at 12 noon today without a hitch.

Cassidy Llewelyn (23) watched in horror as her friends and fellow law students in dual degrees suffered through the QUT server collapse on 31 January 2022, a date now recorded in the history books as the ‘Monday Meltdown’. 

“It was insane. The group chat was just GOING OFF. Everyone was panicking and it seemed like my entire Facebook feed was screenshots of rego on Stalkerspace,” said Ms Llewelyn, “I mean, you just don’t expect such an immense error from an institution like QUT.” 

Scrolling through the numerous jokes about the supposed University of Technology, Ms Llewelyn felt herself becoming incensed by a thread critiquing the server outage, in which scores of students were airing their frustrations about the plummeting quality of content delivery and teaching since the beginning of the pandemic. She felt herself nodding in agreement at a comment about recycled podcasts, remembering her surprise when the LLB303 Evidence unit included slides labelled LWB432, a unit code not used since circa 2014.

“What do they actually think they’re playing at?” she posted, “They went and sacked a bunch of staff while using Covid as an excuse, but still manage to give the VC (Vice Chancellor) a pay rise to $1.2 million a year. Not to mention we’re still paying out the a** in fees. Where is our money going if we have no f***ing teachers and podcasts from 5 years ago??”

Ms Llewelyn watched the first few ‘likes’ on her post roll in as her iPhone buzzed, the ‘Class registration for your course has been rescheduled’ email flashing before her eyes. Agreeing to continue the interview with us following her new registration time, Ms Llewelyn apprehensively changed her iPhone reminder to Noon on Friday. 

“Yeah, let’s see how this goes. If it bloody goes to sh*t again I’ll be mad. Like so much for ‘technology’ eh?”

A follow up phone call at 12:15pm this afternoon has only provided anti-climactic closure to the registration saga, much to Ms Llewelyn’s dismay.

“I can’t believe it actually worked. Like, it seemed quicker than it’s ever been. I hope this doesn’t mean everyone’s going to just forget about this sh*tshow, it’s just the tip of the iceberg in…”

Unfortunately, the rest of Ms Llewelyn’s statement could not be documented, as we had managed to fit all our classes on one day and had to tell the group chat.