Senior Registration - Part 2

Wednesday's registration went off without a single hiccup!  HOORAY!

I admit, I borrow trouble on a regular basis.  On Wednesday afternoon, I hurriedly shut down my classroom early in order to make sure I made it home in plenty of time to sign into class registration at exactly 3:00.  I worried that I'd be stuck in traffic, or that I'd get pulled over and ticketed (so I did NOT speed), or that some less than brilliant individual would unexpectedly pull their minivan in front of me, causing a crash (like that would ever happen...)

Thankfully, none of the above occurred and I arrived at home with almost 30 minutes to spare.

Why exactly 3:00, you ask?  Because that was the moment the registration portal opened... and classes fill up on a first come, first served basis.  If you aren't quick enough, the carefully designed schedule you and your child spent several days constructing could go up in smoke.  That happened to us one year.  I had troubles with signing in that put me 5 minutes behind the curve.  Only 5 minutes.  We were left scrambling to try and construct an acceptable schedule on the fly as classes literally got pulled out from under us right and left.  What a nightmare!

But not this time!  I was in and out and on my way in five minutes!  Of course, I only had to build half of a schedule.  Here it is...

A DAYS
A1  Seminary
A2  AP Calculus AB

B DAYS
B1  English 12
B2  Government/Citizenship (Sem 1) - Weight Training (Sem 2)

That's it!  Will has all his science requirements done.  In fact, he has all his math requirements done, too.  That calculus class is being taken as an elective.

I'm glad I was able to get in successfully, because 4 of the 5 classes I signed him up for were full only moments after I was done.  Weight training was the only one not filled.  That class will be mixed with younger kids.

Will is going to be done at the high school at 10:30 every morning.  That will give him time to come home and eat an early lunch before heading off to his afternoon class at Mountainland Applied Technology College.  I have not yet signed him up for that class, because I have to wait for the admissions to come available.  That won't be until sometime this summer.  But I have spoken to the secretary, gotten his demographics entered in their online system, and am setting up an appointment with the counselor there.  He will be in class at the college from 11:30 until 2:30 every day, learning all sorts of computery stuff.

I think he will be very happy.  All that time just focusing on computers.  Also, high school has not been a great time for him.  His "friends" have turned out to not be very great friends, after all, so I'm hoping he'll meet some new people over at the IT class.  It should be full of high school seniors from schools all over the valley who are all into computer stuff.

In the meantime, Will is still planning on joining the National Guard on his 17th birthday and spending this coming summer at basic training!  More on this later...