Ah, the righteous semi-annual affair that rivals the insanity of a Macy’s Black Friday Sale: course enrollment.
This event takes place strictly online for the physical health and safety of all academically-driven minds here at UNC.
Unless you are a senior embarking on your last semester at UNC-Chapel Hill, or have some niche major like geology, chances are your cortisol levels are slightly elevated during this time.
The enrollment slot bestowed upon you is determined by how many credit hours you have previously taken. The more hours you have, the sooner your enrollment date will be.
However, for those who have received any AP or Dual-Enrolled credit, these hours don’t help you out. For enrollment purposes only, these credits are blacklisted. So yeah, that sharp elbow you just suffered from the lady next to you in this Black Friday rush put you at the back of the line.
Your laptop must be fully charged. The shopping cart must be full of your desired course options – and your desperate ones. You are staring at a ticking clock watching the little hand in its last few instances of rotation as the moment of truth abruptly approaches.
The doors swing open and complete chaos commences.
Your mouse shifts to press the next button before the page has time to refresh. You arrive at the final destination only to be hit with the gut-wrenching: “SOLD OUT.” The devious red box and yellow triangle appearing on your screen dilate your pupils and drench your soul in complete and utter defeat.
It's over. Someone else was faster. You stand there with slouched shoulders as you watch someone else skip to the register with your flat-screen TV. You turn, and in a dim light, you see the dinky toaster sitting with all the other rejects. Begrudgingly, you pick up the sad toaster and shuffle your feet to the register.
