The Art of Scheduling Classes

The whole process of advising and signing up for classes is one meant to be a cruel punishment for aspiring scholars. As a junior signing up for my senior year classes, I have a new found respect for those of you who made it to your senior year at all. To those of you who are not yet seniors, don't choose the double major route. Something I should have learned by now, but somehow manage to erase from my memory every semester, is that Queens is a small school. Thus, it is never a simple task trying to organize your classes so as to achieve maximum packing-in of said classes. And now, since we're part of the glorious age of technology, we are signing up for classes online, a thing that I always thought would be easier instead of more difficult. This is not the case. Attempting to penetrate the vast confusion that is the Queens Portal/Black Hole is more than I can take. I try signing up for a Comm Theory class - which has no prerequisites that I could establish - only to be turned down by a big red angry alert telling me that I don't have the prerequisite for this class. Sign up for - no, just trying to find an advanced studio art class is a far greater inconvenience because of the lack of TLC the administration has for our dear art program. On the other hand, I can fit an environmental science or calculas class into my dreary, ragged schedule. Or one of the ample business courses offered. Or, hell! maybe I'll take an extra CORE class.
Alas, it looks as if I still have some work left to do.