Registration headaches

I totally forgot today was the first day of registration for the MCAT. Thankfully I logged onto SDN and saw all these threads about people waiting an eternity to register, so I joined them in both patience and panic. Interestingly, the last two times I took the test, I just simply logged in, registered, cried while entering my credit card number, and then proceeded to forget about the MCAT until about 2 weeks prior.

I wound up waiting about an hour, with both my computer and phone trying to log in. I was kicked off the phone twice, three times on the computer, to include getting to log in once and then getting kicked off. It was annoying. (What kind of IT people are working at AAMC? Shouldn't they be prepared for an onslaught of users since they only open up ONE registration time for a whole glut of test dates?)

But I am finally registered for the January 26 test, and besides being sick from paying out $270 of my unemployment money, I am not fully nervous yet. Guess that's what happens when you've done this twice before.

Now that I've lost most of the day to my ex-job, a research study, commuting, doing homework for my class, and being unfocused while waiting to register, I have nearly no time to study for that very expensive test. Sheesh.