It’s that time of year again.

Pre-registration has officially opened and all around, I see people poring over department websites, picking out courses.

The problem in my case is that we’re only allowed to pre register for four credits. Four credits is not nearly enough for me to take all the classes I want.

Do I choose this Psychology class that I’ve been waiting a year for, or, this religion class at Penn about Hinduism that looks so interesting? What about this economic development class at Haverford that compares India and China? Oh but there’s an economic development class here at Bryn Mawr by a professor I’ve heard only good things about. All these cities classes look so great, but so do all these English classes…

And on and on and on.

At one point in my shopping cart (it’s this place that you can sign up for courses before actually pre-registering for them) I had nine courses and no idea which ones I wanted to weed out.

I decided that since I was most likely going to major in cities, it would make sense to start fulfilling requirements for that major.

After much turmoil, I finally pre registered for three cities classes and a psychology class.

What it boils down to is that there are simply too many good options.

 

And ultimately, the ordeal of having to forego one good option for another good option is such a privilege to have.