It seems like just yesterday we were enrolling in classes for this semester, but here we are gearing up for the next, and the stress of scheduling classes is upon us. It's the most wonderful time of the year...said no one ever. It's probably, no it's definitely, everyone's least favorite time of the year. As I approach my sixth semester as a college student, the stress of scheduling next semester's classes never ceases to take its toll on my sanity. It's a week of stress that sends most on an emotional roller coaster.
1. Anticipation
Knowing enrollment appointments are coming out soon, all terrifying memories of enrollments past begin to come back and haunt you.
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2. Nervousness
The day is finally here and the buzz of enrollment begins. Opening your enrollment appointment is about as nerve-racking as that Bio test you just took the day before (and as most of us know, Bio is no easy feat either).
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3. Sadness
The enviable happens. You're stuck with another lousy enrollment time again. You sit there, sulking, silently cursing whoever gave you the absolute worst enrollment time possible.
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4. Jealousy
As word spreads about enrollment appointments being published, it's suddenly as if no one has anything else to talk about. After multiple conversations, you find out basically the whole world has a better enrollment date and time than you, automatically causing your inner green monster to take over.
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5. Stress & Anxiety
These two go hand in hand, because now you have the daunting task of finding out which classes are being offered and when. So you start scrolling through course catalogues and contemplating every last combination of classes and times to find the perfect fit.
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6. Hope
As you add classes to your shopping cart, you attempt to keep a positive attitude in hopes that you'll get a fraction of the classes you want, at the times you really need.
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7. Defeat
The feeling you get seeing your list of first choice-classes dwindling day by day as your appointment time approaches.
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8. Overwhelmed
When your appointment finally rolls around and you have no idea what classes to sign up for.
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9. Curiosity
So you come up with multiple possibilities as to how you can butter up the professors who have no clue who you are to get overrides into their classes...
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...or maybe you're wondering why you're even putting yourself through this stress we call college in the first place.
10. Annoyed
Electives can be a blessing and a curse all in one. All the good ones are usually taken after the first day, so you're left with ones that aren't necessarily your forte. Taking a random music class as an elective when you're basically tone deaf just to qualify as a full-time student is not the best scenario.
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11. Relief
FINALLY! You refresh one more time, and a class you desperately need opens up.
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12. Luck
A professor emails you back with an override code you had been praying for. You feel like everything is finally working in your favor now. After all, getting an override just doesn't happen everyday. It feels like the sky's the limit from here.
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13. Content
At this point, you have a decent schedule. It may not be the perfect combination of teachers, times, and classes, but you're still on that four-year track, so thats all that matters, right?
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14. Agony
Then you remember open enrollment starts in a few days, and you'll have to go through the same set of feelings all over again...
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