I hope you havn't been waiting...

Hello! Since it's been almost a month and finals are over and school started up again, I will now post something on this sorry excuse for a blog: "AHHHHH" That is all I have to say about what this morning's frantic dropping and adding of classes and sending of e-mails to various people informing them of the dropping and adding and the schedule changes that this re-arranging caused. I think I should explain now. So this morning I woke up at seven (sigh, school) and went through the usual routine. Nothing unpleasant other than the fact I was headed off to school shortly. Rode the bus, walked to my first class. Again, nothing bad. Then I had my first class and...Good news (tricked you, didn't I!) I will be able to get into that class (i'm on the waitlist at the moment)!! So I ran over to my next class in a fairly optimistic frame of mind. Which didn't last long.... So I walked into this classroom for the first lecture of "community ecology" which is a four hundred level course. Big mistake on poor, ignorant, confused freshman me who thought that course levels had no reflection on course difficulty as long as there were no enforced pre-requisites. Hah! This course did have an advisory prerequisite, but how was I supposed to know that they really meant "you will fail miserably at this course if you havn't taken this other course first!" Anyways, so I sit down in the front and am still optimistic. The teachers are friendly, they look like fun, the class sounds interesting and the like. Then the class actually starts. The teachers introduce themselves and hand out the syllabusl. I glance down and I start thinking, maybe this class is a bit much for me at the moment. Then the teachers start expounding on how a thorough background in Ecology is vital to this course. Now I'm starting to get worried because I've never taken an ecology class. Then we do introductions. I was one of the first, so I said the usual, my name is blank and i'm really interested in this class 'cause it sounds like it will be interesting, umm, and, uhhhh...fun. Then everyone else goes and real panicking commences. I'm in a class full of graduate students!!! There was only one other undergraduate in the class and he is a senior!! AHHH!!!! They have research projects!!! So I realized, i'm in way over my head. Way, way, way over. Then we have the first lecture which was a painful experience for me because it was full of terms and ideas we were all supposed to be familiar with and i'm the only one in the room not nodding my head in complete understanding. At this point, I realize I am not going to take this class. Fortunately, I talked to the instructor without completely breaking down and she was very nice and understanding and told me I was making the right decision, I can always take it later, e-mail if you want me to suggest some other classes you might be interested that are more at your level etc. So I ran to the computer lab and dropped that class like a hot potato. Then I dropped the other 400 level class I had signed up for in a fit of self preservation. Now I was faced with the problem of finding a new, easier class that still has seats open and that doesn't conflict with my necessary schedule. After much groaning and knashing of teeth, I found a 100 level class with no pre-requisites that is meant for freshmen and sophomores. Then I had to e-mail my boss explaing that I won't be able to work on Wednesdays and asking if I could work on Tuesdays or Thursdays instead. And then I heaved a great sigh of relief and proceeded to post the entire saga on this very blog... Now that you are in tears with sympathy, I will go and try to get the rest of my books. Goodbye!