Well you would think with 30 years of university experience that I would be well informed about university administration. I am not. Neither are many of my colleagues. So I'm flying blind into a new degree.
So let's start at the beginning. QTAC (Qld Tertiary Admissions Centre). All online, very easy to follow. Simply put in all my qualifications - some of the degree paperwork is pretty moth-eaten. Strange fact - my old employer wouldn't provide a letter of employment with dates. But I did get a statement of some sorts that satisfied QTAC. I also applied for grants that I wasn't suitable for and QTAC email came through almost immediately asking for some paperwork that wasn't relevant.
QTAC staff know what they're doing; they are courteous and kind. The hours are generous; I like to contact early in the AM before CS folks get too irritated (that word looks weird). But that's just me projecting. I tried both online and phone chats--seamless success. Staff, IT personnel/website creators 👍.
As I've got a few degrees and too much life experience, I could skip to the start of the Law Line and I get some credit points. So within a few days I received an offer.
Now comes the tricky bit. As I'm used to OLD terminology I accepted the "offer". Little did I realise (ie read properly) that I had to press an "Enrol"ment button. It was large and green but somehow I am green-large blind.
I received a phone call from QUT - lovely ones welcoming me BTW - checking my enrolment. I told them I'd accepted and blithely ignored the semantic difference.
Late one night - with drinks imbibed - I logged into QTAC to check on something. I realised I'd been locked out a while back because of poor password memory (PPM) when I successfully logged in this time - see how helpful some alcohol can be - my green-large blindness was cured.
I enrolled at 1:10 am Christmas Eve. I was massively panicked - was I too late? Luckily, my place was still available. And luckily I didn't delve too far into the admin labyrinth that is enrolling in a modern university...😕😕😕😕
