You know that scheduling your classes for the next semester is going great when you spend four hours redrafting because none of your humanities courses fit in. My Computer Science major requirement classes were much easier to pick than the science and humanities electives. Above all, I am not struggling to keep up with my electives because they should be an easy grade, right? Surely, nothing can go wrong.
As I have a normal registration date for my class, I remembered to check my schedule right before. I would not want a repeat to happen just like it did at the beginning of my freshman year. It is quite literally a scavenger hunt, but instead of Easter eggs, you must uncover the classes.
The one thing holding my schedule together may be a surprise to you. It is not the two-hour lunch periods or the completely free afternoons I have. It is somehow the surviving sleep schedule I have had since my high school years. Waking up at 6 a.m. every weekday has been sort of a normal routine, and I find it offsetting if I wake up later than 9 a.m. This does save me when it comes to early morning classes because if I know college life, it is that all of the midday classes are going to be full. The ones that have not must be the ones to watch out for.
For this semester, it has been the Tuesdays that have been unfairly long, and yet it seems like Tuesdays will continue that legacy. And the days that I look forward to? Those are Wednesdays because something about reaching the half point of the week makes the rest go by very quickly.
The moments right before the opening of the scheduling window are much more nerve-wracking than booking tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. The key is to have fast, reliable internet and have the page already loaded on your computer. But above all, the fate of your schedule comes down to how fast you can click the button. Not even the Hunger Games had this tight of a space for making it out alive.
But back to the humanities courses, which, by the way, took me around four hours to decide on one that worked with my schedule. This may be a Computer Science only thing, but some classes offer humanities credit while others do not. For this reason, I have been jumping from taking Spanish Literature to Human Anthropology. Easy classes such as Intro to Cinema were on my first schedule, as a matter of fact, but I looked back to see only three seats remaining. Now, I would gladly like to take that chance on any other activity. Imagine I only have three attempts for the claw machine that is highly unlikely to give me any rewards. Consider me glad to use up those chances. However, ask me to schedule a class with three remaining seats, now that can either end up with me being the luckiest person to get in, or not. Regardless, by the time this article is published, I will have confirmed my new Fall 2024 schedule. Again, this will have either been something I did not need to worry about or something that I must spend another four hours breaking all-time laws to make room for classes.
