Class Registration Time

Upperclassmen warned me class registration could be like a meager attempt to complete a 1,000-piece puzzle missing a few of the key pieces.

I come from a high school where students didn’t get to pick what they wanted to eat, let alone what courses to take.

With the newfound freedom of choice, I’ve been overwhelmed with the number of options. So when it came down to picking my schedule for next semester, the word balance keeps ringing in my ears. Yes, I am slowly learning the key word to everything in college your freshman year is balance.

Unfortunately, I have not yet mastered the art of maintaining equilibrium in college. If balance is the key to registering and planning my course load for next semester, then I must try to offset my harder classes with easier ones.

This may sound easy until I enter a class I thought might be less time consuming, but requires tons of work.

My recurrent nightmare is I enter a classroom and there sits an overeager, dedicated new professor wanting me to read 20-plus thicker-than–the-Bible textbooks and write intensely concentrated and thought-provoking research papers on each volume.

I guess we’ll find out come January 17 if it’s going to be that nightmare or a dream come true.