If you're a college student, you have definitely experienced the struggle that is class registration. As a freshman, your first registration is guided, which is so vital to your survival later in your solo registrations. You'll quickly realize after your breeze through registration at orientation that getting the classes you need is cutthroat.

With all sorts of crazy requirements, designators, and standards, it can be extremely hard to get exactly what you need. However, it gets more complicated than that. Not only do you have to consider what classes you need, but certain classes need to be taken during certain semesters so that you are on track for graduation.

This makes things way more complicated when they only offer one or two sections of this class each semester with a cap of 25 or 30 students.

The best part is, it doesn't stop there. Some professors are crazy, and I mean crazy as in demanding.

So naturally, as students, you try to avoid their class that entails hundreds of pages of reading every night and so many homework assignments that you would rather pull all your hair out than combine that with your other classes in your schedule.

However, they're most likely the only one teaching that one class you need this semester. Awesome.

On top of this, you have to take a minimum of 12 credits at most colleges and universities to meet the minimum requirement for all sorts of financial aid, scholarships, and even for insurance purposes.

So, as you pick four to five classes, you have to keep in mind that these classes cannot overlap and you have to leave time to get from one to the next.

This basically means that in most cases you'll have either a very early morning class that you end up skipping all semester or showing up to still drunk from the night before, a night class that causes you to miss all your club meetings, pre-games for going out, and even possibly missing watch parties for some of your favorite TV shows, or a Friday class- which is the least of the three evils here, as long as it's not super early or late.

in all of this craziness, don't forget that registration goes top-down, sort of. First, you start with your athletes and your honors students, you know because an athlete with a 2.0 GPA gifted to them by the people taking classes for them deserves to have their first pick at classes.

Then it goes from seniors all the way down to the freshmen. So as I said earlier, good luck to those of you second-semester freshmen that literally have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to see what's even left and pray you don't have an 8 a.m. every single day.

Drop/Add week is a whole other monster in itself. This week comes after registration, during the first week of classes in the new semester. This week allows you to basically redo your schedule if you please.

This can be great if you had an absolutely awful time getting classes during your regular registration time, but you have to be on your toes, and on your school's website at pretty much every second of the week.

The key here is timing because someone can be in a class that they realize isn't what they thought it was going to be, or it doesn't satisfy that requirement they thought it did, so they leave when the class is over and drop it while sitting outside the building.

Some people could wait until that evening or the next morning to remember that they need to get out of the class. Therefore, classes are changing, opening and closing at every second until that grace period ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday of the first week, locking everyone's classes in place. Don't give up all hope until then and fight for the classes that you need.

Registering for classes in college should be considered an extreme sport. This time in a college student's life is quite wild.

You may even see people offering money to others to drop classes so that they can scoop up the class and secure their spot or witness some grown college students walking out of advising crying because they just aren't going to graduate on time without that public speaking class that they've put off for four years and now can't find a spot in.

As awful as it may be, you'll make it through and as awful as your schedule may be, don't let it get you down.

May the odds be ever in your favor during registration, college friends.