Tips for Getting into Classes Add/Drop Well, unfortunately, one of the biggest side effects of going to a small liberal arts school is that, well, it's small. With that said, you will *not* get into every class you want to take at Wesleyan because most likely the things you are interested in, 100 other people are, too. Yeah, see, no, you are not a special, unique snowflake here at Wesleyan. Forget all that shit you learned in elementary school.

Here you are your WesID.

Here you are how fast you can click.

Now, not all hope is lost, of course. The professors are not the creators of the machine that is Wesleyan Class Registration. They, for the most part, have some drops of mercy within their bones.

Some are even misguided enough to think you might just be a special, unique snowflake.

Appeal to that.

First, the *minute* you get out of registration, after adding desired classes you were too slow to get into onto your class wishlist, run, not walk, back to your dorm and email the professor. In said email, you should write honestly (or dishonestly, I suppose, if you're just taking the class because your crush is in it or you heard it was an easy A) the reasons you want to take the class. These reasons can range from anything from a deep, burning obsession in your loins for the poetry of Langston Hughes or giddy feeling you get when someone talks about cell division. Whatever. Just make it sound like any future hopes for breathing depend on you getting into that class. Believe it or not, desperation works like a charm.

Second, find out that professor's office hours and stalk. Ask if they got your email. Ask if they got the flowers you sent them...

Third, go to every class as if you were actually in the class. Do the work. Take notes. Hand in the papers. Gaze affectionately into the eyes of said professor each class period from the middle of the room (not the front, not the back, the dead middle, because this is where professors focus the maximum amount of eye contact on students).

Fourth, if you are not in the class at this point and the professor tells you that you're wasting your time, do not give up. Show up again the next class. Add/drop is only two or so weeks long. You can do it.

Lastly, in case you somehow find the darkest heart of Wesleyan Professors or the most popular class (say, Sociology 151), make sure you have an easy backup class with unlimited enrollment.

Good luck and Godspeed, spacemonkeys.  ¶ 8:33 PM