W&R 150-014

I am so grateful to be an BYU... a place where I know the Lord wants me to be. I have met lots of great people, and I have lots of great experiences even though it is only the first week. One of the great frustrations to me right now is the Freshman Academy. The only reason that I signed up for it was because my cousin and I were told that we would have a better chance of getting a room together if we did. Unfortunately, due partly to my bad planning, I didn't sign up in time for an envelope so I ended up in a humanities envelope when I'm really a science major. I was planning on double minoring in French and English, but because of my envelope classes, I didn't enough space left to take French 101. And I couldn't drop any of my envelope classes or I would lose my housing. The rules of Freshman Academy are uninviting and entirely too strict... if I could do it over again, I would not have chosen to participate in Freshman Academy. Also, I got a 5 on the AP English Literature and Composition test, so in theory, I shouldn't have to take an introductory college level writing course. But freshman writing was part of my envelope so there was nothing I could do about it! I know that I will have good experiences in my academy classes, but I still wish that I didn't have to take them because they're repeating things I've already learned and they have prevented me from minoring in French.