We can obviously consider the Registrar's Department the heart of the administrational system, as it is the place where the students' problems should be dealt with. Hardly anyone, besides the students themselves, knows that it usually takes a month to have the smallest matter settled.

According to the official opening hours, the registrars are at our service from 10 AM to 3 PM Monday to Thursday and from 10 AM to 1 PM on Friday. These are undoubtedly regular opening hours for such offices but they should have taken into account the fact that most students have classes at that time, and the majority of those classes

are held in other buildings. If some students can arrive in time by chance, they often find a closed door with a notice saying 'out for lunch'. Quite a long one indeed. Having to wait hours until someone opens the door is not rare, not to mention how many times they say 'Sorry, we cannot help you right now.'

Some might say that all these problems are rooted in financial grounds, that the university does not have enough money to develop or at least maintain the level of its services and facilities. They are right and wrong at the same time.

Seminars are different. It is obligatory to attend them, and a group discussion or simply being closer to the material itself facilitates the intake of the information.

It would be useful if there were books which cover the same material as each lecture course but there is no such thing at the moment. Instead, students are required to photocopy hundreds of pages of lecture notes and library material while all the copying facilities are either closed or out of order.

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American Literature, Registrar's Department, Save ELTE, Literature II', Course Descriptions, lecture course, copying facilities, facilities wrong,
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