Freshmen at Large - Cristine

So, New Student Conference was probably the most stressful three days of my life, mainly due to the less than one hour that I spent registering for classes on the last day. Or should I say, scrounging for any class that wasn’t Engineering 550. You sit at your little seat with “MyRecord” open, just waiting for someone to yell, “I got in!” By the way people start rushing, you’d think it’s Christmas or something. With your selected parent peering over your shoulder, it’s the best you can do to stay calm amidst all the mass hysteria. And of course, you always have that one class — that one class that there’s just ONE seat left in that you immediately go to first. For me, it was economics. I had my schedule picked out perfectly. I knew if I could just get into this one section I would be able to take the philosophy class I wanted. But nope, maybe 10 seconds into the whole ordeal, the seat was already filled. No philosophy for me this semester. So, I resorted to the most generic of generic classes. A great way to start off college, taking all the classes you thought you’d never have to take outside of high school. I had an 8 a.m. every day, and let me tell you, I was pumped. Thankfully, by the start of classes, one of my early bird classes was changed to a time later in the afternoon. So I now only had two days of waking up too early. After that experience, I dreaded signing up for classes, but this time, it was a breeze. I casually left Fish Fest, headed home, grabbed the schedule I made earlier that day, and signed up for every class I wanted. Nice. Now I just need to figure out what major all these classes are going to count toward and then I’ll really be on the right track.