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Scheduled…?

Yesterday I found out my schedule for next year. A few months ago, I picked these classes:

• Programming III
• English IV Honors
• American Government/Economics Honors
• Anatomy and Physiology Honors
• AP Calculus
• AP Spanish

AP Calculus and AP Spanish are supposed to take up two periods (one each semester), so that gives me a full eight classes. Toward the end of the last school year, I found out that I would be taking AP Calculus AB the first semester and AP Calculus BC the second semester. Ugh. And let’s not even think of Spanish. I just chose it because I wanted to take another AP class. It never occurred to me that only native speakers take that class for an easy A.

Anyway, let’s look at my first semester schedule:

1. American Government/Economics Honors
2. AP Calculus AB
3. English IV Honors
4. Anatomy and Physiology Honors

It looks A-OK. But here’s my schedule for the second semester:

1. Spanish IV
2. AP Calculus BC
3. Physics I Honors
4. Programming II

First of all, I somehow got Spanish IV, which is half of the AP Spanish class. The other half of the class, which should have been in the first semester, is nowhere to be found. Does this mean that I’m only taking the class in the second semester? I can’t say for sure, but it looks like I won’t be taking Spanish in the first semester, which is a tremendous relief. Now it should be (somewhat) easier for me to get switched out of Spanish. What would a good alternative be? I don’t know! But even if they don’t let me switch out, I’d much rather take the class for half the year, if that’s even allowed. It’s all so confusing. I might even have to talk to one of the guidance counselors or something.

Second, It looks like I got put into Physics. I don’t really like the idea (there’s a reason I didn’t choose physics, after all), but I’ll manage.

Finally, my schedule says that I’m taking Programming II again. It seems likely that they mean Programming III, because last year, Programming II, III, and IV were all in the same classroom at the same time, and the class had about twelve people in all. I’m hoping that they meant Programming III, because I really don’t want two scheduling fiascos.

I’ll just have to tell myself that it’s going to be okay and that lots of other people have gotten crazy schedules that they need to get changed.

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