It is true; some things are too good to be true. When scheduling for Autumn quarter of Sophomore year, I was naïve. I thought I had the dopest schedule known to man. Truth was, I was in over my head.

The idea came to me in a dream. It seemed silly and impossible. I speak of the infamous 2 day schedule. You see, Ohio State offers 2-day-a-week classes that last nearly two hours. I had a conversation with myself:

“Self, why not take three of those classes?”
“Yea. I did 6 hours a day in high school. How hard can it be?”

This schedule was murder. The first problem was the class selection. Two honors classes and a second year writing course just doesn’t spell happy trails. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking. The second problem was the teachers. They were god awful. I dismissed teacher reviews just to make the schedule worked and it hurt me in the end.

Philosophy H101 was filled with freshman pricks who loved to talk about abortion and religion (It was an open discussion class). Gag me. I don’t want to hear your views, I want to take the class and be done with it. The class involved a lot of reading and writing for a 101 course. And certainly one big thing to avoid is a class with a teacher who wrote their own book. Zoinks that was ridiculous. Try having to analyze someone’s thoughts and writings and then turn it into them.

The other two classes were no better. Econ H201 was okay, but again it involved a lot of reading and writing. The tests were impossible. A sixty percent was passing after the curve, and it also happened to be the average grade. And the second year writing course involved….a lot of writing, obviously.

I ended up skipping more classes than I planned to and had the worst grades of my career. Falling asleep in class was also a big pitfall and led to many angry teachers, drooled on clothes and desk-marked faces. This is only for the strong willed and the crazy! Do not attempt!