A tale of SS-LOL and the bulletin

For today's Quick and Dirty, we asked our columnists and bloggers for their thoughts on course registration:

Derek Turner, Blogger: As a senior, I didn't have to live through registration, but I must say I'm happy to see some of my junior friends signing up for Nobility and Civility, by far the best course at Columbia.

Samuel Roth, Columnist: College is the only time in your life that you can study whatever you want, just because you want to. Choose unwisely.

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Canon Contributor: Class registration is a funny thing. It's really about squeezing all the knowledge you could possibly want to gain into a series of temporally and spatially constrained decisions. Things get left out. Roads are left untaken. On second thought, class registration is a really depressing thing.

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