Dear Cozie.

Dearest darlingest Cosette,

Today was one of the worst days of my life.

Don’t get me wrong, I love college and I think it’s going to be a really awesome experience! … Just not today.

I had Honors Writing first thing in the morning, and it was AMAZING. The teacher is really engaging and it seems like the class will be absolutely incredible! I was so excited for that class. Which I now have to drop. Because my next class was supposed to be my Acting for ATP class… but it wasn’t. There had been a misprint in the class catalog when I registered, so the class I tried to go to was actually Acting for MTP. The Acting for ATP class is only offered at the same time as my Honors Writing class, and the Honors Writing class is required for the Honors Housing, which I am living in. And there is absolutely no way to schedule all of my required classes now without there being a conflict. So basically I can either drop out of the ATP or move out of Honors Housing.

…At least, that’s what I thought at around noon today, when I was walking back to my dorm in tears, frantically calling advisors and trying to find the professors’ offices so I could try to find a way to fix my schedule. Of course, no one was in their offices, so I left three notes asking them to call me when they got back. Then, the wrong person called me back. Twice. Both times they asked me what the problem was, said they couldn’t help me, and told me they would have the Honors advisor call me when she got in. SHE WAS THE PERSON I LEFT THE NUMBER FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE. And she never called me. So tomorrow I have to go to the Honors Center at eight in the morning to try to figure this whole thing out.

Fortunately, I told one of my suitemates my dilemma. She is a bioengineering major and had the same problem with getting the Honors classes and the required classes for her major to both fit in her schedule. She said that she is only taking one of the Honors classes and they are still letting her live in the Honors dorms. So I’m not freaking out anymore. But it was almost five and a half hours of torture before I discovered this.

The good thing that came out of this crisis was that I got to know Kyrsten- the suitemate who’s a bioengineering major- a lot better. We talked for an hour and went and got dinner together. I like her and her roommate a lot! Also, I think instead of Honors Writing I can now take this class with the same teacher called Travel Writing, which sounds awesome and fulfills the Honors Writing requirement. Remember how I’ve always wanted to write articles for National Geographic? Yep, that class would be pretty much perfect for me. For the final project, the class gets to take a four-day-long river rafting trip! It doesn’t get much better than that.

Anyway, I still have to go talk to the Honors advisor and see if I can change my schedule around… so I’ll let you know how it all goes down! Tomorrow will be a much better day, I just know it.

I love you tons!! I’m excited to hear about your move-in tomorrow!!

Love,

Kate