Fighting For My Classes! (And Parking..)

So this morning, I woke up at 6:35 and sat and stared at my computer until registration opened online. Today was the day most of the freshman got to register for their spring classes, so I was sure many other people were doing the same thing. I was so tired though! When I got to my room, I put on some trance music, turned up the bass, then blasted my speakers super loud. Once 7:00am hit, I tried logging in, but my internet timed out! As soon as this happened I started trippin big time. I closed Firefox and pulled up Google Chrome and logged in there. Luckily for me I managed to get and and punch in all the numbers of the classes I wanted instantaneously. I wanted to check my student record to make sure I actually signed up for the classes, but my internet timed out again. That's when I realized, the server was being overloaded with bajillions of college kids trying to sign up for their classes! I somehow managed to swipe on a 2 minute chance to grab all my classes. I called some friends to check on them and they were still stuck refreshing their internet browsers over and over again. Sucks for them, I guess I got lucky!

I decided to stay at home and sleep for another hour because basically my first class on tuesdays and thursdays is at 10:30, but I still go at 8:30 like mondays and wednesdays because I wanted to build a good habit of waking up early and I liked being able to have a guaranteed parking spot. Recently a friend of mine told me that there's plenty of parking between 10:00am and 10:30am, so I decided to sleep in today and come to school at that time. Here's the pros and cons:

Pros:
- I got extra sleep which made me feel more energetic in the morning
-There was absolutely no traffic, I got to school in 10-15 minutes
-There was time to do other things at home in the morning (IE: last second homework, eat)

Cons:
- I arrived at school at 10:00 and found parking at 10:20.. I think it's because people get out of class around 10:15, so I basically have to wait until the right window of opportunity to swoop on a parking spot when kids get out of class. Unfortunately there's like 50 other cars circling the parking lot like vultures too, so it's not so easy..
- My leg was about to die from the constant pushing in and out of my heavy clutch. My car felt like it was about to blow up after driving over so many speed bumps for 20 minutes.

I noticed that other cars were arriving after me, but getting spots before me because they were doing what most of us make fun of the most. When you follow someone walking back to their car and wait until they get in and back out and leave. In the shoes of the person leaving, it's the most annoying thing in the world. It happens to me all the time. But after today, now I realize, the desperation of trying to find a parking spot. I tried not to do that, but I missed out on more parking spots than I should have by not doing it.. Oh well, I think I'm just going to stick with coming to school early.