Scheduling Stress

This has absolutely nothing to do with traveling or the castle, but I was bored and decided to write in here. Feel free to skip over this post if you don't care. Today I had my time to register for classes for next semester. The way Emerson has you register for class, you get an assigned time (November 28th at 3pm) and you get a PIN number/password and you sign in to pick your classes online. The only problem is, when you are an underclassman, you get the worst times so by the time you register, most the classes you want are gone. Last night I went to look at the classes I wanted and started freaking out. After making about 4 different possible schedules, I came up with one I liked that allowed me to have no Friday classes and no class before 12. The only problem is, two days of the week I have to have class from 12-6 with only two 15 minute breaks in between each class. In order to get this schedule, I needed to sign up for a class that only had 3 seats left in it. Throughout the day, I kept hearing people who wanted to take this class, so I was getting really worried. I went to the computer lab around 2:20 because I didn't trust the wireless on my computer to not freeze up, which would make me miss out on the classes I want. By the time we were able to register at 2:45, all 20 or so computers in the lab were filled with sophomores trying to register. It was so crazy and stressful because everyone was yelling and screaming. It reminded me of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. 5 minutes before, I started to just keep refreshing the page until it let me in to register. I got in, typed in the course code for the class with only 3 seats left and hit enter. Then I typed in the code for the class I wanted with only 6 seats left and hit enter. Then I typed in the third class that had 9 seats left, but I knew no one was going to be signing up for that. And the last class was already registered for me. I did this all in under 10 seconds.

I think it is a pretty good schedule and the best part is I will have Magda (My favorite professor) twice on Tuesdays and Thursday. The entire morning I was stressing out over this whole thing and I really think that Emerson should make a better system for registering. Oh well. I live in a castle.