Class registration can be one of the most traumatizing, panic-inducing times of a college student's life. You can be as completely prepared as possible, you can have your schedule planned out through second semester senior year, you can dress like Katniss or have "I'll Make a Man out of You" from the "Mulan" soundtrack playing in the background, but none of that is guaranteed to help you in any way. It's a game of chance that (almost) everybody loses. Happy Hunger Games, college kids -- and may the Class Checker be ever in your favor. (Warning: If you don't like looking at "Hunger Games" GIFs, then this might not be the right article for you.)
1. When you first catch a glimpse of all those shiny new classes, just waiting to be loaded into your shopping cart.
2. When you start trying to calculate how many gen-eds and how many major classes you should be taking this upcoming semester.
3. When an upperclassman warns you about how hard one of your most needed classes is to get into.
4. When you're in the process of plugging a million different possible schedules into Coursicle just to find a way for all your classes to fit together.
5. When you find a history class that fulfills three gen-eds.
6. When half of your classes close before you even have a chance to register.
7. When it's 10 minutes before your registration time and you're giving yourself a pep talk.
8. When it's time to grab your classes and run before anyone steals them.
9. When you weren't quick enough and someone got to your classes first.
10. When you're scrambling to snatch up any classes that were looked over the first time around.
11. When you realize you might have to take an 8 a.m.
12. Correction: When you realize you might have to take two 8 a.m.'s.
13. When you look back at your schedule after it's all over and realize you somehow signed up for three underwater basket-weaving courses because it's all they had left. New major maybe?
14. When you roll up to Academic Advising asking them to fix this mess.
15. And they say that there's nothing they can do to help -- that you'll just have to wait for the classes you need to open up.
16. So you storm off, unsatisfied with their advice.
17. When you frantically plug in all the classes you need into Class Checker.
18. When you sit by your phone impatiently waiting for a class to open up.
19. When a class opens up and you frantically grab it before it's too late.
20. When, after a long arduous journey, you finally have a schedule you can be proud of.
21. But then you realize you actually have to take those classes now.
