I want to drop my math course—already. I know the quarter hasn’t started yet, but I have this feeling I’m not going to like it. Besides, I don’t need it anyway—the major requires I complete the calculus series through Math 161, and I did. Plus I hear that Math 153 is entirely useless, as if calculus weren’t useless enough as it is. So I’m looking for alternate courses to take when I drop Math 153. But all the good ones are either full, have prerequisites, or conflict with my schedule—oh, and I don’t want class on Fridays. What can I say? I’m picky.

I left all my scheduling stuff at the dorm. The course book, my planned course of study for the next two years, the list of requirements for my major(s)—everything. So I’m just surfing the master schedule online and trying to figure out where they hid all the cool classes. I mean, they have to exist. I’m convinced there’s a cool class out there just for me; one that fits in my schedule, isn’t full, and allows me to keep Fridays for sleeping. I have high hopes for this one.

Unfortunately, life really doesn’t work how the Walgreens commercials say it doesn’t. So if I drop Math 153, I’ll only have 20 credit hours this quarter—5 short of my goal. But I’d have more free time, less work, and I wouldn’t have class on Friday. (Did I mention Math 153 is currently my only Friday class? Every day, 3:30-4:18. I really hope this isn’t the only reason I want it gone.) I want it gone.

Maybe I’ll give it a try. If it’s as hard as people have told me—and I’ve witnessed people get pwned by this material—I’ll drop it. If I can handle it, why not keep it? Maybe because it’s not doing me any good. I only added the course because economics is one of my majors, and modern economics is pretty much just math. I don’t know why; that’s just how it is. So when grad schools look to accept candidates, they want math. They’d probably even go as far as to take a math major over an economics major. See what I mean about those Walgreens commercials telling the truth?