Updates and Junk and Stuff

I haven't updated my blog in awhile; as a film major, I had to do film major related things... Like direct the PSA that I pitched!!! I also had mid-terms in my survey of film class, hopefully I did well. That said, let's get to the update part.

So this quarter seems to be more organized than last quarter. If you remember, last quarter I couldn't even begin to register for classes until three weeks prior to the quarter starting. Winter quarter starts on January 4, and I'm registered already. This will lead me into a rant.

As you may know, in order to keep my unemployment, I have to register for night classes. Well, right when I tried to register for classes at 6:30 am today (my appointment began at 6:00 am, as did all the juniors), there was only 1 class left for me to register into. One of the classes I had wanted to enroll in had managed to fill already; another was completely canceled. I would lose my financial aid if I only had 1 class, so I began to worry. I'm great at worrying. I'm also great at thinking things through before it turns into a panic. So I realized that my unemployment will run out at the end of this year, anyway. I won't have "I'm on unemployment" as an excuse to take night classes anymore. On top of that, I figure most part time jobs are built around hiring students who go to school all day. So, I'm still looking for full time work, which I will accept if I get, this quarter. But as soon as unemployment runs out, I'm going back to being a "regular" student, which means 9:50 am classes, and I will then look for part-time work.

So, I also managed to register for an extra class, so I'm full time plus 4 units next quarter, to make up for the 4 units I don't have this quarter because of registration problems. Noticing that I would only have one lower level requirement for my major left, I decided I should try to make that a class of mine so I can get all the lower level requirements out of the way. Lo and behold, my school isn't offering it this quarter. It's a freaking graduation requirement for my major, but the school is all like, "Nah, don't want to give it." What. The. Freak.

Seriously, I blame Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cutting educational funding hurts people. So I got registered into classes I need, albeit not at the times I preferred, but I'll take what I can get. But I was already having a hard time registering, and I'm a Junior. Only Grad students and Seniors registered before me. Think about the poor Freshmen, some of which can't register until next Wednesday, then think about the kids who for whatever reason didn't get financial aid and have to wait to pay their tuition and then register. There aren't going to be any classes. That's really sad. Here we have Americans going for higher education, and instead of being rewarded, we basically have to fight each other tooth and nail just to get a class.