2008 Woodie Awards
Students should register early for college classes
Michael Hilal
Issue date: 2/10/05 Section: Opinion
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When making the transition from a junior college such as San Joaquin Delta College, to a four-year university, one would almost breathe a sigh of relief. A student may feel as though the time and work that has been invested in school is finally beginning to make sense, being much closer to finishing, having met and conquered that mid-point of schooling, you have received junior status in enrollment.
At this point, one hopes, your major and where you will be transferring to have already been chosen. What happens next may almost be surreal. In some instances, feelings such as defeat, anger, and frustration can cloud your illusion of a four-year university, or even the possibility of ever finishing school. Currently, along with a couple of classes I am attending at Delta, I am a senior at Sacramento State University, in the Communications Studies Program. I was forced to take some of the classes needed for my major here because I found it almost impossible to get into many of the classes I needed.
A very important lesson to success, at first, is not necessarily spending endless nights studying or taking the most detailed notes, but rather, having the earliest possible registration date. Most classes I have needed to register for usually fill up on the first and second day of registration.
Sac State, as I am sure most other schools do, send out a notice giving you your registration date. When I received my notice, and as it was for the 8th of December, I was fairly confident that I would be able to register for the classes needed for my major. I had convinced myself that this was a good date, until one day in particular.
The earliest registration date that I had heard of someone getting had been that of a junior girl in one of my public relations courses, she had gotten the 28th of November. She was very upset for some reason. The girl said that of all of the five courses she had possibly tried to register for, she was only able to get into two of them, the other three had to be added.
At this point, one hopes, your major and where you will be transferring to have already been chosen. What happens next may almost be surreal. In some instances, feelings such as defeat, anger, and frustration can cloud your illusion of a four-year university, or even the possibility of ever finishing school. Currently, along with a couple of classes I am attending at Delta, I am a senior at Sacramento State University, in the Communications Studies Program. I was forced to take some of the classes needed for my major here because I found it almost impossible to get into many of the classes I needed.
A very important lesson to success, at first, is not necessarily spending endless nights studying or taking the most detailed notes, but rather, having the earliest possible registration date. Most classes I have needed to register for usually fill up on the first and second day of registration.
Sac State, as I am sure most other schools do, send out a notice giving you your registration date. When I received my notice, and as it was for the 8th of December, I was fairly confident that I would be able to register for the classes needed for my major. I had convinced myself that this was a good date, until one day in particular.
The earliest registration date that I had heard of someone getting had been that of a junior girl in one of my public relations courses, she had gotten the 28th of November. She was very upset for some reason. The girl said that of all of the five courses she had possibly tried to register for, she was only able to get into two of them, the other three had to be added.