Marissa’s guide to pre-registration junior year

1. Realize pre-registration is a month away.

2.  Promptly freak out and check the tri-college course guide. There are no classes on the tri-college course guide. Pre-registration is a month away, you are being too eager for senior year.

3. Check the tri-college course guide religiously every day until course listings arrive.

4. Make spreadsheets with 3 or 4 possible schedules.

5. Briefly entertain the idea of doing a thesis.

5  ½ . Immediately reject the idea of doing a thesis because you want to have fun your senior year.

6. Get caught up in work and completely forget about pre-registration.

7. Realize pre-registration is a week away.

8. Panic.

9. Hastily make an appointment with your major advisor to get your plan approved.

10. 1 day before your meeting, realize that you probably want to do a Praxis.

11. Hastily make a Praxis plan.

12. Meet with your major advisor and try to present yourself as a functioning human being that is actually not super overwhelmed.

13. Suddenly realize during your meeting that you are going to be a senior next year.

14. Panic.

15. Get caught up in work and completely forget about pre-registration.

16. Realize pre-registration is 1 day away.

17. Panic.

18. Hastily try to finalize your Praxis plan.

19. Have an awkward conversation with the receptionist in the Dean’s office because you have to get your Dean to sign your Praxis plan, but you are also too tired to form coherent questions.

20. Briefly reconsider the idea of thesising.

20 ½ . Instantly reject the idea of thesising.

21. Realize that everything is starting to fall into place at the last minute and you will probably have classes to go to during your senior year.

22. Realize that you are going to be a senior next year.

23. Panic.

I don’t know what happens after this.