I sent the hub (CMU\’s admissions/records/blah blah blah office) a complaint yesterday because I sent a request to have my student verification sent, but never received confirmation that it was ever sent. In the complaint, I was rather direct and blunt, but certainly gracious. So this morning, I received a personal e-mail from the main recordskeeper confirming that my verification was faxed.

This is one thing I dislike about CMU. So much of the administrivia is mishandled. The interface for their system is horrible. I needed to put my dad\’s name on the verification, but there was no space for it. So I put his name in the insurance policy field. I can\’t print out unofficial transcripts (unlike at Berkeley\’s Bearfacts) because I can\’t put my name on it plus they only display the grades by semester not by all semesters. And so on.

If CMU is supposedly a top CS school, what happened to their management system. Why must a private school be worse in their administriva than a public school?