Author: Nicole Biton
1. The Course Enroll nightmare begins when you see that email from the registrar in your inbox.
2 . Uh oh. It’s that time of year again.
3. You’re like, didn’t we just do this?
4. Ugh. Time to hit up the registry.
5. You spend two weeks scouring the online course catalog.
6. But everything looks good. There’s just too many to choose from!
7. SO. MANY. OPTIONS.
8. You just end up saving all of them to your Favorites bar so you can narrow them down later.
9. Except now you have 17 classes to choose from, and you really want to take all of them.
10. You decide to narrow by time slot. Anything before 10:10, to the left.
11. But now every class you have left conflicts with each other.
12. How is it possible that every good class is offered at the exact same time?!
13. The stress continues when you see on Student Center that one of your prereqs only has two spots left.
14. After careful consideration and many hours spent on Coursepad and Chequerd, you finally figure out a schedule with 16 credits and only one 9:05.
15. The night before, you set 12 alarms to make sure you are up and ready when your enrollment window opens.
16. But then your alarm rings at 6:30, and you’re just like:
17. IT’S TOO EARLY FOR THIS.
18. You open your laptop and just hover over the ‘Enroll’ button until the moment the clock turns seven.
19. You try to psych yourself up for this. YOU GOT THIS.
20. OMG, it’s 7:00. Go, go, GO!!!
21. Things start off well enough. You think for a moment, “Huh, maybe this isn’t so bad after all.”
22. But then you realize a class you needed is closed out already.
23. Wait, that one is closed out too?
24. THAT WAS THE ONE CLASS YOU REALLY WANTED.
25. Everything is terrible.
26. You feel helpless, dejected. What are you supposed to take now?
27. Suddenly, you see that there are two seats left in one of your second-choice classes.
28. TIME TO MAKE MOVES.
29. You add it to your shopping cart and check out as fast as you can.
30. OMG YOU GOT IT!!
31. You’re finally done, and you’re exhausted.
32. And you feel slightly violated.
33. But then you realize it’s only 7:05.
34. Time to go back to bed.
35. You drift back off to sleep, hating course enroll more than ever before.
36. But you also realize that your schedule is actually pretty dope.
37. And now you can’t wait for next semester!
38. Until next time…
