Timetables

SMU was amazingly quick to provide us with next term's timetable. I must say I'm both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised. My impression of the administration so far has not been very good, but this speed of which we receive our timetables is impressive... After all, this term hasn't even ended yet! BUT! Why are all my courses pre-assigned?? What happened to autonomy... What happened to choosing and bidding our own timings?? Is this how we're going to be different? To lose our choices?

Yet, what can I do... Is it me being too dependent on friends? Am I wrong to want to have a shared time table with friends I know and can talk to? Or should I be happy to make new friends...

A little confused, a little depressed.. Hoping to find someone to mutually swap with..

Why didn't they release this information 2 weeks later? There's a whole term holiday for us to meditate on our time table and any changes. Certainly, its now an unwelcome distraction nagging at me, despite the tight deadlines I have. It's crunch time now, 2 weeks of deadlines after deadlines after deadlines to rush. Can I make it? I hope so. Have never worked so hard or felt so stressed in my life. A good experience perhaps, and certainly my own fault for not doing more earlier.

A lesson learnt, hopefully, or next term will be worse. 6 modules, not a laughing matter when I'm struggling with 4 now. Wish me luck!