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Finally realised why everyone was complaining about bidding for courses; inflation from the previous year is absolutely crazy and timetabling isn't that easy.

Only 1/3 of my bids were successful. That one successful bid was actually pretty worth it because the minimum successful bid was $12.01 and I had placed a bid of $12.11 :) Without a doubt, all slots of that class were taken so I was really lucky because the prof was said to be quite good/decent.

First unsuccessful bid: I did not get the stats prof I (and everyone else) wanted ): Missed the minimum successful bid by slightly over $1. The max bid for the class was $28.00. I should have invested more e$ into the bidding for that prof's class but let's face it - at that point in time, it was illogical. SMU's bidding system is very much like bidding for COE;you get last year's stats and you strategise/predict what will land you a successful bid. You can't see other people's bids so it's a lot of blind-bidding.

On the other hand, you have the absolute spoil-market ding dongs who bid $36.50 (I was given $40.00 let's think about how absurd that is) for one of my ideal stats prof's classes.

Second unsuccessful bid: I also bid 20 points for my workshop (everyone spams the max amount). The bidding opened at 1000, I placed my max bid at 1002 but I didn't get a place -.- Looks like a lot of people are more kiasu than me hahaha.

The next window opened at 5pm and being the absolute worst I camped at my laptop and submitted all my bids before 5.01pm. Hope I get the modules I want this time round :/