Now that midterms are well over and colleges across the country are approaching or have already had spring break, we may come to realize that being closer to spring break also means being closer to the end of the school year. Scary, I know. What's even scarier is for all of us here at LSU is receiving that oh-so-wonderful email to let all students know when we will able to schedule our classes for the next fall semester.

What?

Now, for everyone (except first semester freshmen), you understand the whole process and just how scheduling works, a.k.a. the worst hour of your life. Which brings the reason of why approaching that house of scheduling classes is, in fact, madness.

First of all, the way that scheduling classes works is really not the most logical method invented. Whoever did create this "everyone try to access the Internet, without it crashing, at the same time," process did not think this through. Or the fact that LSU is a school of over 30,000 students, so having a select number of students that can fit into the only five classes available for that particular subject needed is bound to cause chaos. And when I say chaos, that is an understatement.

The process basically goes like this: You have your entire schedule planned out; you sign on at your specified time (most likely 5 p.m.) then BAM. "Overload of Access." So then you are stuck sitting there for about two hours refreshing the page, and once you can finally access it, there is about a nine out of 10 chance that most of the classes you have planned out are already full.

My only advice in surviving scheduling madness is to plan a variety of classes, days and times that fit into your schedule and then just pray to the scheduling gods that the odds are in your favor.