That being said, my discovery of my cousins' brilliant blogs (here, and here) gave me the inspiration to give this another try. Besides, it's that time in the semester again where I am supposed to be spending every waking moment outlining... meaning, of course, that my desperation for new procrastination techniques is full force.
At Eastern Oregon University, all of my classes were online, and none of them had caps. The result was that I could register for anything I felt like, as long as I made sure that I was getting my GEs. I was even a Liberal Studies major, which is effectively like majoring in electives. Probably best of all, EOU was on a quarter system, which meant that I knew that even if I ended up hating a class, I'd only have to put up with it for a couple of months.
When I moved on to grad school, registration became even simpler. The program was small enough that there were only 6 or 7 classes offered by the department each semester, and most of them were three hour seminars that met once a week. The chance for class conflicts was basically non-existent, and there were no class caps. I knew all of the professors in the department well enough to know what to expect from any given class, and 9 credits was considered a full course load. Again, a very easy experience.
Cue law school. The first year's registration was simple, because the school took care of it for me. All of us 1L's had to take the exact same classes at the exact same times, and the registrar just divided us into sections and sent us our schedules. This week, though, they let us register for classes for next fall, and it was incredibly stressful. I picked out the classes that I wanted to take, and for the first time in my life, had to deal with scheduling conflicts. After a good deal of agonizing and nearly an hour spent rearranging pretend schedules, I finally came up with a workable schedule.
The morning of registration, though, they let the current 2Ls register first, and by the time they were done several of the classes I had wanted to take were completely full. Scrambling for a new workable schedule and rushing to beat my classmates to get seats in the more popular classes, I panicked and registered for 17 credits. The good news is that none of the classes conflict. The bad news is that we're only supposed to take 15 credits, and 17 credits (A) is academic suicide and (B) precludes me from any chance of doing a journal next year.
So I have to drop a class :( Probably soon, because it's not nice to be sitting on class spots in more classes than I need, especially because some of them are now completely full. But which one?
The fun class taught by the world's greatest living legal philosopher (according to his Wikipedia page)?
The class that will look great on my clerkship applications that's rumored to be an easy(ish) A?
Or the class that's actually relevant to what I think I want to do after graduation?
(Unfortunately, I'm not letting myself consider dropping the one class I'm actually dreading and would love not to take, because it's required for graduation).
*sigh* Sometimes, too many options can be such a painful thing.... although at least it gives me an excuse for why I'm not working on my outlines.
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