As everyone should know by now, Montclair State University is phasing out WESS and introducing the new online system Nest. Alum, prospective, and current students can use WESS (Nest) to view finances, classes, grades, and other useful academic information.
Most importantly for us current students, we have to register for our Fall 2016 classes on this new program. In a time of confusion, I turned to my mentor Michael Scott to guide me through this process. So here's a look at how Michael Scott helped me handle registering for the upcoming semester through Nest.
At the beginning, I was very confident in the new program, seeing it as an upgrade from WESS. I was hoping to actually be able to navigate around Nest without being logged out every 10 seconds. Just kidding, at least WESS was easy to follow.
When my parents try to help, only to discover they don't understand it either. At least now I'm not lying when I say I can't show them my grades.
Upon further inspection and logging on to Nest, I realized I did not know what to do. The layout makes no sense and there is not the same information on Nest as there was on WESS.I tried again to navigate my way through, but to no avail. I've visited Nest several times but understood it zero times.
This has become my new approach to Nest with my upcoming course schedule. As a sophomore, I'm pretending I understand to seem smart in front of my friends, but really, none of us know.
After seeing the "April 13th is Fall Registration" message on the front page of Nest I became more confident, until figuring out that that does not apply to me. Mine is in a week and a half.
And I'm already hearing about classes being closed an about the problems already plaguing the website...
When you have to explain to your parents that you still haven't registered and your younger siblings are around.
Versus when you're talking about your struggles with your friends and peers.
At least the MSU bookstore is there for us to provide school spirited appeal. I know what I'm using mine for! It's all here!
Until your registration time comes up...
...and you realize that all of the classes you need are closed. Or only available on Saturday's at 8 a.m.
But remember, people make schedule changes every day! So aggressively check up on Nest!
Stay open-minded, it will all work itself out. You'll get what you need. (For the most part.)
Remember, you are Beyonce. You will get those late morning classes and those Friday's off. I believe in you.