the hatred of ARIS

For those of you who are in a chemistry lecture where you have to use the ARIS system for your homework, you know how painfully agrivating it can be. The system always seems to be down for some reason, and if it isn't, it experiences glitches. The latest example of the ARIS's failure was yesterday where I spent-I kid you not- 6 hours trying to log in to do my homework, unsuccessfully. It kept saying that they were doing maintenance on the system and simply wouldn't let me in so that I could do my homework that was due at 11 last night. I found out throughout the course of the night that I was not the only one who was experiencing this problem, and that at least 3 of my friends were having the exact same problem. Needless to say, homeworks went uncompleted last night, lots of emails were sent to professors, and a lot of things were broken in all the frustration. Hopefully they will find some way to fix the problem before all of us end up failing based on incomplete homework grades. But I'm not holding my breath.