Registration is nigh, Columbia, which, aside from giving me an excuse to use the word "nigh," means that we'll all soon have something other than housing to complain about (sidenote: I'm thinking of writing a children's book that features Columbia as an incredibly disappointing version of the Giving Tree. Like it'll still give the kid an apple but the apple will cost 8 grand a semester and face a brick wall. It's a work in progress.). I was thinking, today, about what I wanted my next semester's schedule to look like, and I realized that what I really had was a list of things to avoid when scheduling classes. Since it took me six semesters of good and bad schedules to acquire this knowledge, I thought some underclassmen might find it marginally useful. Obviously not all of the following can be avoided, but even avoiding one or two could drastically (well, slightly) improve one's quality of life. So here it goes.
Note: A special thank you to my friend Jake Coppola, whose undying (yet hilarious) pessimism when it comes to all things Columbia is a constant challenge to my day-to-day happiness, but who comes in handy at times like these.
1) Don't take a 9 am class. Especially a language class. I've said it before, so rather than repeat myself and get my editor all mad about the word count of this thing, I'll just direct you to number 3 on this post from last semester.
