When Signing Up For Classes, Consider...

In general, it matters a lot more that the classes you are taking are balanced than that you enjoy each individual class.  Much the same way that even block days can suck because you have 4 hard teachers (I had some example teachers listed here, but if I listed hard teachers, then I had to list boring ones and that just seemed way too mean) in a row, or rock because you have all 4 of your study halls on the same day (except you are a Peaker and you would never come to school if you had that).

So, when you sign up for classes, consider these things:
- Spread out your hard courses. (Duh to the power of 234)
- Take courses with reading homework at the same time as courses with example homework.  Same thing with written work, and lab work.
- Leave time in the afternoon to feed your ostriches
- NEVER OVERLAP YOUR CLASSES.  The registrar is stupid and will let you sign up for a chem class that starts at 2 and a lit class that ends at 2:10 on the same day.  Don't do that.
- Where are these classes? Having to super-freaking-speed-walk across campus twice a week because your next class is at PigFarts sucks.
- Get your gen-eds out of the way
- Some classes are only half a semester.  Be sure to check the start and end dates or you could walk into a room and be the one person who is not on the roster and then have to walk-of-educational-shame back to your dorm
- Do you have a lunch break?  Don't be a turd.  Make sure you have a sizable gap to eat lunch in.
- Is that class in the middle of my nap time?
- Popular campus activities.  These include: chapel, study groups, clubs, sporting events, rehearsal periods, practices, movie nights, Bible studies, dorm games, and Quidditch.

So there you have it.  Apparently, these posts will be either mildly amusing and very informative, or mildly informative and very amusing.  You can't have it both ways.  I'll try to switch back and forth between the two.

*UPDATE: Reading homework is defined as work that is just reading from a book or a text book.  Example homework is the kind of assignment that consists of problems to solve or exercises to do (like in Spanish or math).  Written work is written (shocker).  Lab work usually requires you to attend a lab period and do supervised experiments of some kind.  You want to mix those types of classes together so that you aren't doing 8 hours of reading a day or something like that.*