By mid-semester the stresses of unfilled schedules will have long since passed, ironically replaced by the anxieties of days that are too full. Right now, though, panic sweeps across campus as many find themselves unable to begin the new semester with ideal class schedules.
Welcome to the first week of classes.
For many, classes are still a far off thing, as they struggle to actually enroll themselves in definite classes. Second-year College student Ashley Freeman finds herself frustrated yesterday by her unsuccessful quest for a politics class. Since second semester of her first year Freeman has known she wanted to be an international relations major. Freed from the indecision that tends to overwhelm most first years, Freeman now only faced one little problem: Getting into the class.
"I'm a little upset, because you'd figure that since politics is one of the biggest majors on this campus, they'd have enough classes to accommodate for the number of people trying to take them," Freeman said with a little laugh."
Freedman attended three politics classes in the past two days but still found herself not guaranteed any, and she is forced to wait until next Thursday to fully know her status. Last semester she was also turned down from two classes.
"So basically I will be going to these classes for the next three or four days for no apparent reason -- because I might not be course-actioned in," Freeman said.
For Freeman, her nonexistent classes particularly worry her because they suggest that she might have to take summer classes, which Freeman said that she -- as an out-of-state student -- can't afford.
"I'm calm now because I'm trying really hard not to let this get to me," Freeman admitted at the end, giving up on laughter.
Third-year College student Claudia Aguilar faces worries as well, as her semester schedule refuses to cooperate.
"ISIS is the slowest thing on the planet," Aguilar said.
Aguilar expresses her frustration with certain popular classes she has attended, which are packed beyond their limits with unreasonable numbers of students. One German translation class was so full that students crowded the room on all sides, as only fifty were guaranteed seats. Another class, this one Politics, was in demand to the point of having a waiting list since last spring. Aguilar -- who emailed the professor recently to be put on the waiting list for the pre-session after this semester -- is not pleased.
"I felt like the older I got the easier it would be for me," she said. "It's not that easy."
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