azurite | Spring has sprung (the classes, that is)

Okay, got my classes. Even though everything went as expected, for the most part, there were a few hitches. See, I'm paranoid about trying to enroll in a class and it being full. Turns out the reason why I couldn't get into two of my classes wasn't that-- it was one class needing department permission (which I'd forgotten about), and one having a boatload more prerequisites than I remember when I originally looked it up.

I'm actually kind of bummed about that last one, because it was a Web Design class that was a prereq in itself for ANOTHER Web Design class-- in other words, I could have fun this semester and next semester. But it has a prereq of ART 200, which has prereqs of either ART 124B, 140, or 141. All of these are basic classes if you're an Art major, but I'm not. Not to mention, the vast majority of those classes are a) lower division (meaning they fill up quickly and usually be filled with freshmen) and b) not all that interesting sounding. Oh, and c) they don't count for credit in the Journalism major because they're all part of the College of Arts, Media, and Communication.

So, *sigh* no web design classes for credit for Mer. It would have been nice to either reinforce what I already know or learn some new tools, but CSUN sure as heck makes it hard to take classes involving computers without a bunch of lousy prerequisites in unrelated subjects like drawing. -_- (The same thing applies to the Photoshop classes... argh! I wish CSUN had programs like my high school did with Digital Horizon and the Richmond Beacon.)

Anyway, Spring 2009 is slated like so:
* Mondays:
4:20pm-6:45pm Shakespeare Plays (3)
* Tuesdays:
9am-12:45pm Contemporary Issues in Food and Nutrition (with Lab) (2/1)
1pm-2:40pm Yoga (1)
* Wednesdays:
11am-1:50pm Introduction to Biology Lab (1)
2pm-4:50pm Principles of Public Relations (3)
* Thursdays:
1pm-3:45pm Environmental Geology Lab (1)
* Fridays:
Off - all day at work, probably

Because of the crappy new class search tool, along with budget cuts (most likely), all the other classes I found had qualifications, i.e. If this class, NOT that class. So given that I got all my necessary classes, I had to choose the "fluff" classes based on other factors. I'm grateful that I got what I did, but not proud that I spaced at the last minute and didn't count out all my units. I added the Yoga class simply to get to 12 units easily. Of all the above classes, I don't need (to graduate, that is) Yoga or the Foods Lab. The others are all necessary in some way or another, either for GEs, my major elective, or my minor.

So... yay? Hopefully my books won't cost too much money this semester. At least for Biology and Geology, I'll still have my books from THIS semester, though I do think my Biology book (which is an eBook) might "expire." In which case, I have awesome notes and have been downloading all the lectures offline. :P