Fourth Time's A Charm

Last week was my first week of classes and the class schedule I’d oh-so-carefully set last spring for this semester had just been completely annihilated by the unseen evil that is the UNC registration system. I had to spend hours in the library trying to enroll in fascinating courses like “GERM 280: 19thCentury German Philosophy and Modern Cultures” and other fun, light stuff like “GEOL 509: Groundwater” and “MATH 551: Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometrics,” to finally create some semblance of a schedule. The only class that I was not mysteriously, as I would later learn from an advisor, “kicked out of due to ‘unknown system errors,’” was ECON 101.

Oh. Economics. How wonderful. I’d literally enrolled and dropped that exact course with the same professor, Dr. Ralph Byrns, 3 times since my freshman year. But let me explain, although yes, I did in fact drop this purportedly “easy pass freshman class” 3 times, I dropped in a productive fashion. The first time, I dropped as a freshman, was before classes even started because I thought it seemed too intimidating and decided to take “LFIT 181: Advanced Swimming” instead. The second time was fall semester of my sophomore year and within ten minutes of the first class I’d decided it was indeed too intimidating and dropped. The third time during Spring semester of my sophomore year, I made it all the way to the first midterm, on which I scored a spectacular “C-,” and thought it hopeless to continue. It’s like baby steps. A little closer to the goal each time.

So I’m thinking that maybe, just maybe, this could be the semester I go all the way (to the final exam).