DO NOT WANT.

Okay sophomores. Choosing a concentration is hard enough without the bureaucratic spawn of digital Satan, also known as the Plan of Study Tool. It’s the interactive online widgety-thing inspiring cries of “WHAT IS THIS? WHAT DO YOU CRACKHEADS WANT FROM ME? MY SOUL? IS IT MY SOUL?!” all over campus. Or at least something similar to that effect.

OK. Fine. Maybe we’re being dramatic but if you thought the course planning tool and graphical schedule were pains in the neck, then you, my friend, will turn into a giraffe with debilitating scoliosis once you hit this page.

And while the cute self-highlighting check boxes and columns are helpful… why do we have to “tag” classes before we can enter them on the plan? WHAT. A. DRAG. This is going take weeks to do. Weeks! And it’s due the 18th?

In any case, see you at the Bureau of Study Counsel because with this on your plate it looks like you’re taking a 5th class this semester: Bureaucracy 94: How to Tag and Acronym Everything Important for the Next 3 Years Including Some Classes You Only Sort of Want to Take and Just Want to Try to Fit in There But You Still Have to Make a Separate Tag Classification For.

Or the shortened form: Bureaucracy. FML.

Happy planning!

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