Pre-Registration
You set your alarm for 6:00 AM because you NEED to get a good spot in Accino, since a desktop is a MILLION times more reliable than your laptop. You slowly climb out of bed and do the ABSOLUTE bare minimum to get ready (a.k.a. throwing on a pair of sweats and a sweatshirt) and head outside. This is probably the only time you’ll ever be up early enough to see the sunrise over PC so, you make sure to take a snapchat story of the sky, complete with the filter of what time it is so everyone can tell what a hardo you actually are about registration. You slip into Accino and find an empty computer lab. The door is of course locked, but because you’re proactive (or aggressive?) you call security to come open the room. The voice on the other end of the phone sighs when you tell them why you’re calling… even they know you’re a hardo. A PC security guard shows up in about 5 minutes and lets you in the door. Of course, when others see this, there is tons of pushing and shoving to get into the room. As you sit down, you log into cyberfriar, pull out a notebook with a list of all of the CRNS you need, complete with backups, and pull up the world clock on your phone so you know exactly when it’s 7:30 so you can hit that refresh button and enter your PIN. All you can do now is anxiously wait.
Registration
The clock strikes 7:30 and you refresh the page. You’re waiting…waiting…waiting… and then it crashes. You freak out, as does the other 35 kids in the room. Absolute CHAOS breaks out. By the time you log back in and type in your CRNS, nothing you wanted (or needed) to get is available, and you end up taking 8:30 civ seminar with that creepy professor everyone avoids.
Post-Registration
You trudge back to your room, and slam the door behind you. Your roommate beams about how she stayed in bed and got all of the classes that she wanted and proceeds to ask how registration went for you. You glare at her and tell her you don’t want to talk about it. You hop back into bed for what feels like 5 minutes before you have to actually start your day. You then get really upset throughout the day/week/month/semester thinking about how awful registration went.
As much as you try prepping for registration, it WILL NEVER work out the way you planned. But you being the hardo that you are… I guess I’ll be seeing you in Accino next semester attempting to do the process all over again.
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