Spring Registration

Ah, the joys of registering for classes. It seems that the further I get into my academic program, the more difficult it is to get into classes that are becoming more and more important for me to take now. I spent several hours last week putting together my ideal schedule. I was pretty excited about all my classes, too. I even had a backup plan in case I couldn’t get into the particular section that I wanted. All I had to do was wait until I got home today at noon to register. Then, on a final check this morning, I discovered that my most important class to have was completely full. And here’s the thing that’s kind of pissing me off: completely full means that only 36 students are registered for the class. Now I don’t know how many journalism majors there are at CSU, but this is a class we all have to take as part of the major, and as a prerequisite to a couple of other courses, so I’d wager there’s probably a damn sight more than 36 people wanting to take this class in any one semester. As well, it seems to me that if I’m paying over $3000 a semester to be here, I should at least have the chance to register for a class of such importance.

Things are going to work out all right in the end. My advisor said I’ll still be able to take my capstone course when I need to, even without one of the prerequisites that the class I wanted this spring is a prerequisite for. I’ll be able to shift some things around, and still graduate when I plan to. And I was able to salvage a halfway decent schedule out of the mess. I just filled the hole in my schedule with a sociology class that will count toward my liberal arts/natural sciences quota. With that, and a game of Road Rage, I’m all better.