Jordanian Bureaucracy
After completing four years’ worth of credit hours, here are the steps you need to take in order to graduate:
Step1: Go to the Registrar and “stand in line” (read: fight your way to your turn) for 15 minutes to get the “Clearance form”.
Step 2: Walk 400 meters to the library, go to the second floor, stand in line for 10 minutes to stamp your form.
Step 3: Walk 300 meters to your department’s repository and wait for 7 minutes to stamp your form. Praise the Lord that my department is the closest department on campus to the library.
Step 4: Skip step number 4 because fortunately, the clause does not apply.
Step 5: Walk 500 meters to the Deanship of Student Affairs and go upstairs to Identity Card Section and wait for 10 minutes to give in your university ID.
Step 6: Go downstairs and wait for the man responsible in the Deanship’s repository for 15 minutes to finish his coffee and stamp your form some more.
Step 7: Walk 250 meters to the Financial Affairs and stand in line for 30 minutes to get another form stamped.
Step 7.5 (not mentioned in the “directions”): Walk 200 meters back to the Registrar to restamp the same form. Stand “in line” for 10 minutes. Sulk as he tells you that you need another stamp from your department.
Step 7.75 (not mentioned in the “directions”): Walk 500 meters back to your department, wait for 5 minutes as the department’s secretary finished her phonecall to restamp your form.
Step 8: Walk 500 meters back to the Registrar, stand “in line” for 10 minutes, and get the form stamped.
Step 9: Walk 250 meters to the Financial Affairs, stand in line in que 7 for 30 minutes to get your form stamped and pay a 100 JDs because you’re registered as an International Student.
Step 10: Stand in front of the que in the Financial Affairs that says “Sho3bat il Eeradat” for 10 minutes until someone bothers to tell you that you are standing in the wrong que and so go stand in a different que for another 10 minutes to place what you hopefully hope is the last stamp on your form.
Step 11: Walk 250 meters to the Registrar’s office, stand in line for 7 minutes, give in your stamped-to-death form to the registrar:
Roba: “Here! I finished all the directions on your paper.”
Registrar: “Ok, great. Come back next Sunday.”
What? Next Sunday?
Decide to skip step number 12, skip the goddamn graduation, cuss the summer heatwave, and walk another 500 meters to the car to get stuck in afternoon rush-hour traffic for 30 minutes, and prepare yourself mentally to spend another hot summer day hustling around with the bureaucracy.
Batir
June 24, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
Amazing, you managed to find them all in their offices? this should be a phenomenon.
Ammar
June 24, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
well she probably managed to find them right before they left for prayer/lunch/nap/rio carnaval dance training..or right after they came back.
but I like the way the paper looks..first of all the “instructions” sound like the steps of a treasure hunt..but not as fun. and the paper itself looks like the map from Jazeeret Al Kinz.
خمسة عشر رجلاً ماتوا من أجل براءة ذمة..بس كانوا لابسين الروب
Husams
June 24, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
They are just making you do so to emphasize the satisfaction of being graduated ;)
Isam
June 24, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
hehe … 3ashan te3rafe 2eemet el ta5arroj … o fee she kaman 3ashan 5edmet el 3alam bya5od wa2et … o ensi el mawdoo3 iza konti mesta3eere she ktab bel zamanat men el maktabe o absar wen ra7 … be2a5rooke lal awwal :)
alf mabrook :)
how’s that poll going … it was intresting !
Pheras Hilal
June 24, 2007 @ 8:53 pm
As tempting as you make it for me to also vent out. I am going to refrain, and stick to: “Don’t even get me started!”.
JU was created for one obvious reason: Its intention is to prepare you for the real world. Literally. Hefty tuition fees, unreasonable taxes and premiums, incompetent faculty staff, mental illnesses among students, excessive red tape and finally, the typical third-world general architecture and interior. Thanks JU for giving me an idea of what to expect in after-graduation life! :-)
Again, mabrouk!
yaseen
June 24, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Tell em about it, I’ve graduated a long time ago, I don’t have lots of time now so everytime I went to uni I managed to get 1 or 2, now I’m halfway through done with it, hopefully over the next two months I’ll be done.
yaseen
June 24, 2007 @ 9:11 pm
By long time ago I mean 3 weeks and a half ;p
Najeeb
June 24, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
Thank God am PSUT
Maher
June 25, 2007 @ 2:49 am
12??? neyalkom ..i think 3enna bel handaseh double that number!
red
June 25, 2007 @ 10:45 am
what an exercise, and what a torture to kiss your university days good bye!
Mohannad
June 25, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
I think bureaucracy exists everywhere in the Arab world as away to increase the number of people doing the same job (false workers) or it is indirect mean of making money through corruption (if you are lucky to know some fat wasta that help you getting your paper done in seconds).
It is crazy that every new boss talks about corrections and nothing have been changed for ages.
Alfa mabrook.
Ayyob
June 25, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
hi roba. Its been a while since i posted since i rarely go online now that im back in jordan visiting family. I was looking through the site and had to comment on this topic. I decided to take summer school here at the hashemite university since im in the country for about 80 days and dont wana waist any time.
I went to the uni on last sunday in hopes of getting registered and starting my classes since i had all the paper work ready from before because i did not wana get held up.
they kept telling me to go to places and talk to people. Long story short I got registered 5 days later on thursday even though I went to the Uni everyday and did exactly as they told me. And you should thank god 100 times cuz ur in Jordan U not in the middle of the dessert. Something really needs to be done about Jordanian Bureaucracy cuz its not only in the schools but everywhere in life.