The registrar website was updated sometime late last week to include the class offerings for Summer I and II. To say I am not pleased would be an understatement. It is bad enough that I have to take classes four days a week while my friends are at the beach, but to top it all off I will be sitting in classes I could care less about.

I know only a limited number of students take classes during the summer, but why are only the most obscure classes offered? And why is it that most classes don’t have professors assigned to teach yet? Many students choose classes based on who is teaching, but apparently keeping that a secret until a later date is some funny joke.

On a similar note, I figured out the other day I only need to take three more classes before I have fulfilled all of my major and College of Arts and Sciences requirements. So why won’t I be able to graduate after completing those requirements? Because I have not yet filled all of my hour requirements, as in the school wants to suck more money out of me.

The school is telling me that after these final three required classes I will know all I need to know to be a journalist, yet I can’t graduate for at least six more months.

I know what you are thinking: pick up a minor. But I am a girl of limited interests. Journalism is what I am passionate about, so I am sticking to it. Plus, it is too late to minor in education, one of my other passions, since that would lead to me having to stick around even longer than necessary.

Well, have fun picking classes next week (registration starts Feb. 4). For now I am stuck suffering through classes I don’t want to be in and listening to professors teaching about topics I don’t care about. I may be graduating in four years and after doing two co-ops, but it sure does seem like a waste of money to be here and not be interested in what I am learning.

– Ashley Traupman is a middler journalism major and member of The News staff.