Registration fails to lead to three-day weekends
Tom Tielleman
Issue date: 11/13/09 Section: Opinion
Alright, so David Tuttle, dean of students and director of Residential Life, has now confirmed to me that he is going to read my column and possibly talk about it on his blog.
This is big news.
Now on top of the four weekly Trinitonian readers that I have, I can add his 12 readers to boot. You can find the Dean's blog at trinitydean.blogspot.com. It's actually pretty cool.
Now if you read last week's column, you're probably wondering whether or not Dean Tuttle paid me to plug his blog this week, as I have begun to sell space in my columns to advertisers for money.
Well, I am hurt that you would think that I'd so easily sell out my integrity for a few extra dollars. Luckily, I have this new iPod that I just bought to cheer me up. Anyways, on to the column.
Registration started last Monday. This time of the semester is always a mixed bag of emotions for people. Some dread it, some love it. The idea of new classes is both terrifying and exciting. Leading up to registration though, everyone envisions that perfect schedule.
You know, that perfect schedule. The one where you have no Friday classes and have a weekly three-day weekend. The one where you are taking a strenuous course load that includes Beginning Drawing and Trap & Skeet I. The one where your only stress is the fact that you have to pay a $75 Studio Fee and a $125 Skeet Fee in order to take those challenging courses.
Speaking of which, did they really put "Skeet Fee" in the course catalog? … Really? You've got to be kidding me. I normally don't like to use crude humor, but this one is just too easy to pass up.
Anyways, as you wait for your registration time and you watch classes begin to fill up, you realize that that perfect schedule is pretty much impossible to grasp. You somehow fill up your schedule with courses like Sociology of Sex Roles. (That's not what you think it's about you lonely, lonely person).
Adding to the overbearing stress as you see the last slot on that easy-A class fill is the fact that you have to figure out the maze that is the Common Curriculum.
This is big news.
Now on top of the four weekly Trinitonian readers that I have, I can add his 12 readers to boot. You can find the Dean's blog at trinitydean.blogspot.com. It's actually pretty cool.
Now if you read last week's column, you're probably wondering whether or not Dean Tuttle paid me to plug his blog this week, as I have begun to sell space in my columns to advertisers for money.
Well, I am hurt that you would think that I'd so easily sell out my integrity for a few extra dollars. Luckily, I have this new iPod that I just bought to cheer me up. Anyways, on to the column.
Registration started last Monday. This time of the semester is always a mixed bag of emotions for people. Some dread it, some love it. The idea of new classes is both terrifying and exciting. Leading up to registration though, everyone envisions that perfect schedule.
You know, that perfect schedule. The one where you have no Friday classes and have a weekly three-day weekend. The one where you are taking a strenuous course load that includes Beginning Drawing and Trap & Skeet I. The one where your only stress is the fact that you have to pay a $75 Studio Fee and a $125 Skeet Fee in order to take those challenging courses.
Speaking of which, did they really put "Skeet Fee" in the course catalog? … Really? You've got to be kidding me. I normally don't like to use crude humor, but this one is just too easy to pass up.
Anyways, as you wait for your registration time and you watch classes begin to fill up, you realize that that perfect schedule is pretty much impossible to grasp. You somehow fill up your schedule with courses like Sociology of Sex Roles. (That's not what you think it's about you lonely, lonely person).
Adding to the overbearing stress as you see the last slot on that easy-A class fill is the fact that you have to figure out the maze that is the Common Curriculum.
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