Screaming Bean |
Sunday, July 27, 2003
It amazes me how when I just start to get whining about something the circumstances change. For instance, I whine about my schedule Friday, and what comes in the mail Saturday? My schedule. Well, if you can call it a schedule...it's more like a shell of a schedule. Seems all the rising 1Ls talked to the same upper class people and made their course decisions based on these suggestions. As a result nearly every one of those classes became over-subscribed. And for those of us like me who thought "outside the box", it seems that we conflicted with all the 3Ls' choices. This mad dash for the classes has left me with only 9 credits. I'm surprised I snuck into those classes. I suppose the school has a policy that they can't send a schedule to your home saying, "Dear student...you are a lemming. As a result of your herd like mentality you have been shut out of all of your choices, as well as your substitute choices. Rethink your life and plans and try again." So, I've had to do just that. I've added three choices and am thinking about a fourth hoping that I won't fall into a similar situation this time around. The accompanying documentation from the school is particularly vague on this point. All it says is that "a revised schedule will be in your mailbox the first day of classes." Of course, you'll have to go to the classes based on what you hoped you may have been signed up for. I feel the need to snap back to the undergrad way of thinking. Sign up for anything and everything, look at the syllabus and professor's teaching style and do your drops accordingly. Who thought I would be getting wistful about the first year where I didn't have such additional worries on my plate.
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