no way, ECO100 as popular as Mr. Aska? riiiiiiiight…

Hi, I am a first year commerce student, and I cant seem to shake a nervous twitch. In order to get into second year commerce, I needed to take ECO100, which I did, but dropped to take it in the summer for better grades. Today was the first day to enroll in summer courses, and after being just 2 hours late after the doors opened on ROSI, I was put on the waiting list in spot 30 behind 120 being accepted.

This obviously isn’t fresh news, and I’m sure many students have had the same problem. However at the risk of my guaranteed acceptance into second year commerce, I cant help but feel uneasy. If anyone has any experience dealing with this sort of situation and can offer me any advice or solutions, I would very much appreciate it. Thank you.

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I understand how you feel, but the only way students can enroll in a course is through ROSI, and neither Commerce nor your college registrar can override this. There?s not much you can do ? that is, unless you?re willing to seek out the 30 students who are ahead of you on the waitlist and bribe them to let you take the course *hint hint nudge nudge wink wink*.

Rumour has it that after the first few days of summer course enrollment, extra spots were added for all sections of ECO100. In fact, I JUST checked ROSI and all the ECO100 lecture sections have 150+ spots now! So I?m guessing that you?ve already been enrolled in the course. Hmm. I never knew ECO100 was this popular. What? Am I jealous? *aska rolls his eyes unconvincingly* I’ll bet my job ECO100 isn’t as popular as me… wait… wha-what do you mean I’m fired?

If you?re not enrolled in the course, you may have reason to worry. For some reason, students have been craaaaazy about taking economics in summer school this year.? I highly recommend talking to your college to find out the backup options available. For example, it may be possible to take an economics course from another campus or University and have it count towards the entry requirement for Commerce. If not, perhaps you could forgo the guarantee for now, and apply later to commerce as a regular Arts and Science student. Either way, you should definitely talk to your registrar.