<p>I am sorry if you take it as a personal blow - it isn’t meant that way. Worrying how something might “look” on your transcript will keep you from taking advantage of all the opportunities available in college - it is time to drop that mindset.</p>
<p>If asked in an interview why you took a course Pass/No Pass, an excellent answer is, “I wanted to take advantage of all the opportunities available to me by going outside my comfort zone…” which theoretically is why you would do it. Answering, “because I am obsessed about my GPA and don’t want to take any risks” probably wouldn’t be quite as good an answer :)</p>