<p>Anyone else here got stuf with third window (Thursday noon) and are seeing all their writing 20 and seminar classes being taken? As a matter of fact i only see 4 Writing 20's that aren't full and 3 seminars... What to do..?</p>
<p>Were the windows given at random? Cuz I feel completely shafted and unlucky right now.</p>
<p>I think they do it by the last 4 digits of your SS number or something. Don't worry...soon enough you'll hear all your current first window friends complaining about their 8:30s during things like, well, basketball season.</p>
<p>What goes around comes around...remember that. Other than that, that's just life I guess.</p>
<p>Registration window for rising seniors is by class; registration windows for rising juniors, rising sophomores, and incoming first-year students are by the last two digits of Student ID.</p>
<p>On the bright side, as you get further in your major, you're less likely to get shafted by the registration windows if you started at #3 - right now, there are a lot of writing 20 and seminar options, but later on, you might need one exact class at one exact time and another exact class at another exact time in order to be able to graduate on time...</p>
<p>I had 3rd window first semester, but I escaped it entirely by joining FOCUS and a permission-only class, so I didn't need to worry about registration at all.</p>
<p>its probably best to be 2nd window first so that your turn in the third window comes sophomore year</p>
<p>i was in your shoes at one point. only when i was a freshman duke started off w/ a 5 day registration schedule and i was last, to a three day registration so picking for spring semester i was last again. it sucks, but you can always find classes, and if not, my best friend is add/drop period. take advantage of it -- i never did first semester, and i wish i had.</p>
<p>So say I want to sign up for the ONLY Spanish class that fits the level I'm at right now and there's no more room in any class...what then? Wait til next semester?</p>
<p>register in something else, see if there's movement in the class over the summer (don't obsessively check, but go to aces if you have free time) maybe email the prof. i'd say your best bet is to wait until the fall to see if a spot opens (or a prof generously adds seats to the class) and take it then. if not, you can always wait until spring.</p>
<p>I actually hate this. My family is paying $45,000 a year so that I can't take classes I necessarily want to take. As long as I get econ, math 41, and spanish 104 I'll deal with whatever seminar or writing 20 class I get. If I don't get into the right Spanish this semester I'll be ****ed, because all the others are full and why would I want to wait a semester to lose everything I've worked to build? </p>
<p>I should've done focus so I wouldn't have had to deal with all this.
Sorry I'm just seriously upset this would happen. Almost makes me regret not having the preferrential treatment and scholarship I had elsewhere... but it's Duke so I'm (will) be happy!</p>
<p>You can always just email the professor and see if you can get in anyway, if you really need to take a specific single class and can't because its full most professors will accomodate you one way or another.</p>
<p>Yea, jeez. Don't already start with the high and mighty "I PAY $45,000 A YEAR DAMNIT!" It's the complaint Duke kids resort to when they think that paying alot of money for something means they should get a carte blanche to life. Just chill! Like Joe says, you can email a prof and they will probably accomodate you. Don't go into your first-year already being bitter, that's no fun.</p>
<p>precisely.</p>
<p>i bi**hed like that all the time my freshman year when i had two BACK TO BACK last registration slots. and it was really not productive at all. yeah, a scholarship could've been v. helpful in registration times, but just think of how wonderful duke will be in every other aspect. i'd complain that maybe had i gone to a smaller school like williams, things would be different, but in reality, they wouldn't. it's just something you have to suck up and deal with. email professors, take advantage of add/drop period, be productive instead of angry. realize that so SO many duke students have been in your shoes, are in your shoes, and will be in your shoes. i mean, not for nothing, you're trying to get into econ. that's not really going to fill. take courses to fill distributional requirements if worse comes to worse. i didn't love my first year classes, but by deduction i found my major. and! more importantly, i got a lot of crap out of the way. therefore, now that i'm older and have better registration slots, i get lucky because i don't waste them on finding a BS science course. personally, i thank my lousy registration slots as a freshman for this, because i know i wouldn't have gotten icky matrix requirements out of the way, and now i'd be stuck doing it. i had finished all my non-major graduation requirements before i finished sophomore year.</p>
<p>lmao yep third window really sucks now haha. I had to change my schedule a few times after my window opened cuz my seminars filled up and now i have 4 days of 8am classes! </p>
<p>woohoo! Who will i be seeing on the 7am bus next fall?</p>
<p>Yay me too! I kinda cried--I'm not a morning person. Everything mattered a whole lot more half an hour ago. I'm okay now. What early classes are you taking?</p>
<p>haha I dont know if i should cry or laugh. my 8 am is Lit 20S, which is like intro seminar...</p>
<p>I wonder if intro lit 20s counts as a freshman seminar and if all the topics/modes of inquiry count towards t-reqs??</p>
<p>wow now that i look at my sched, I have 3 classes on MWF and 1 class on TTh... hmmm 3rd window i <3 u</p>
<p>Well I got all but one class I wanted. I have 5 830AM classes, but there was nothing I could do. My seminar is Spanish 114S so that will be fun. I mananged, luckily. </p>
<p>I'm so glad all that has been lifted! Thanks for everyone's help.</p>
<p>Bluestar7: that is terrible they did that to you. Good thing you got your requirements out of the way. That's what I'm trying to do. Thanks for the advice. I just needed to vent a bit.</p>
<p>I was third window to, and actually, my schedule is amazing. 4 days of classes that start at 10am, and on Wednesday it starts at 3pm. Tuesday and Thursday I only have one class, and all of the courses were my first choice! I got really, really lucky!!</p>
<p>tufnut2crack: the lit20 will count as your freshman seminar and for the modes of inquiry so you lucked out w/ that clutch class.</p>
<p>I'm taking an early morning lit seminar, too. COMPARATIVE CULTURAL VALUES & MODERNITY...anybody know what that means? I was just checking the block and I have no idea what it is. My schedule doesn't make any sense. I had big plans...but adversity is the true spice of life!</p>
<p>i took the writing class that involved children's books. it fit my reading level =</p>
<p>the course name escapes me but it's by halloran</p>
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<p>I intentionally signed up for a class that starts at 8:45 AM three days a week. I'm already used to getting up at 6:30 to leave at 7 AM for 8 AM classes at my highschool (leaving an hour early seems ridiculous maybe, but I live in LA and because of funny traffic 7 AM meant getting there at 7:20 and leaving at 7:10 meant getting there at 8:01). It can't be THAT bad, right? You guys are scaring me! I figure its an athletic school... tons and tons of people will be getting up early to run or practice their sport or whatever anyway.</p>