How Courses are Chosen

OK, today I shall introduce to you how the University of Chicago strives to allow students to choose their modules and not having to bid for any. I will also tell you about the safety measures put in place to give every student the opportunity to enter the courses they desire in a scarce educational economy.

The UChicago uses Chalkboard, the same system employed by NTU. In this system, the computer first allows students to select courses they want using the first-come-first-served principle. Courses are of course, filled up very quickly. However in UC, the student has no access to the first Add/Drop period. Instead, every student has to arrange an appointment with their Academic Advisor during the week, and only after discussion with the Advisor can the Advisor manually add/drop courses. So, classes are continually opened/closed throughout the week, allowing students on Friday to have fair opportunities to enter very popular courses.

But, I had a 4pm appointment on Wednesday, so I was very unlucky. I didn't get the courses I wanted at all...

But come Monday, we will all have access to the Add/Drop system, provided that we obtain appropriate signatures from the Professor. So, I will be entering classes that I didn't get, sitting in and hoping that the Professor would notice the Pink slip in my hand and sign it...

Do I really have to take Language and Human? I have 5 books to read in 10 weeks... (including the Bible... and Shakespeare? I am going to suffer)I wonder how I will achieve that...

And oh ya, I got 2 credits for Chemistry, but I'm thinking if I should use it. Should I challenge myself? Or should I get used to my heavy reading in my Humanities Classes...

How am I going to answer these questions? And how am I going to answer to myself?

I will post my timetable for you all to see when I can answer these questions.