As she sat in the Starbucks on campus and signed up for classes for the upcoming spring semester, Towson University junior Alex Brown reminisced on the last time she went through this process for the current fall semester. This past July, she walked into her orientation for transfer students excited to start her journey at Towson, and looked forward to registering for classes in her major, Early Childhood Education. But as she sat down in the computer lab with a small group of other transfer students to register, the feeling of excitement quickly turned to that of stress as she saw how few classes were available to the last of the students making their schedules, and how many of her credits from community college that she thought would transfer over, didn’t.
“When I had to sign up for my classes I was the last of the bunch so I got the worst picks,” Brown said. “There were so many classes that I needed that I couldn’t take and the times were all over the place.”
SARAH RIDENOUR 