Found My MAP

UMBC has this interesting little subsection on the student portal called “My Academic Profile,” or “MAP.” This page is supposed to display your progress through completing the General Foundation Requirements (GFRs) the university requires before they will allow you to graduate. The caveat? They never update the darn thing, largely because the inane system requires that somebody manually enter everything into the page.

Thanks to my credit count, I’ve been getting all kinds of emails from UMBC reminding me about the deadlines to apply for graduation, and recommending that I check my MAP to make sure that I’d completed all of my GFRs. Of course, I was unable to usefully reference this page as the last time it had been updated was in 2005 when the put in the credits I had transferred from community college.

Today is a monumental day because I randomly decided to check my MAP and discovered that two days ago, some poor individual was tasked with entering all of my current data. While some things are still incorrectly labeled, for example, marking my Phys Ed requirement complete (it is) but leaving “you still need to complete one PHYS course” in the comments. Still, I’m excited that this particular corner of my undergraduate education finally got the 2.5 years’ worth of dust shaken off.

Hopefully the new system they are implementing (PeopleSoft) will help solve some of these issues. Naturally, the target date to make it live is the fall after I graduate.