Class schedule nightmares scare students and advisors 0 ne more semester. It was my last time to register as an undergraduate. Four years spent diligently checking off each required class. I was ready to write down the last 17 hours of classes I needed. I was reminiscent as I turned once more to the communications section of the catalog to take one last look. My student analysis form lay in front of me filled with small red marks indicating the classes I had already taken. To graduate I needed 128 hours. I recounted the hours from the past semesters and added the list of classes for the spring: 125. I counted again. My eyes scanned the list of classes twice and still the number 125 appeared. I began to feel nervous. How could I have made a mistake like this. There had to be some explanation, something I was overlooking. I gathered my papers together, stood up and calmly walked to my advisor's office. Surely he would be able to discover what was wrong. As I waited outside his office, my head filled with a multitude of thought. There was nothing I could do. His door opened and I entered his office with a dismayed look on my face. " I have a small problem," I said. My heart beat faster and I nervously bit my lower lip as I waited for an answer. I thought I had planned everything out so carefully. Step by step, I had spent hours flipping through the pages of the catalog making sure each credit hour was accounted for. Here it was, I was experiencing every college student's nightmare ... four months away from graduation and you learn you are three hours short. I swallowed hard trying to return my stomach to its original position as I sat rigidly in the seat staring at the bent head of my advisor. He shuffled through piles of papers, from my school records to the catalog and back again. I fidgeted as he looked up with a disconcerted smile and then resumed his search. He finally lifted his head from the papers and books scattered on his desk and smiled weakly. "I don't know how this could have happened," he said. At this point I noticed that his neck was turning a light shade of red and the color was slowly moving into his face. He looked at me with a forced expression of confidence and rose from his desk. "I'll be right back, everything will be fine," he said in a worried voice. As he left the office, I sank down in the chair. He wasn't fooling me. All the signs pointed toward it. I wasn't going to graduate on time. I though of how I was going to explain this predicament to my parents, but most importantly how I was going to retain my composure when he returned. The door opened. The red color now covered his face but strangely enough he seemed to have a genuine smile on his lips. He sat down in his seat with a sigh and began to utter short bursts of nervous laughter. "Just get it over with," I thought. The words I longed to hear came. "Just a tiny little mistake. We weren't counting the 200 level courses for as much as they were worth," he said happily. I couldn't believe it. My desperate concern for the situation had bothered him to the point that he was unable to think clearly enough to understand what had happened. A quick consultation with a fellow professor and everything had returned to normal. We both sat smiling and laughing for several minutes feeling relief replace the tension that had been present in the room just moments ago. His face was now red from embarrassment as he relaxed and leaned back in his chair. My body went limp and the smile on my face seemed to be placed there for eternity. -Savannah Morley Angela Rene Bond - Memphis, TN. Elementary Education . Tri-Kappa, Club Queen (Galaxy), Coll ege Republicans , SNEA, Winter Festival Queen Attendant. Terri Lynne Bomar - Romance, AR. Elementary Education. Darren Scott Bonham - Independence, KS . Radio-Television. Walter Lee Bounds - Memphis , TN. 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