My fall schedule saga; or, how I lost my mind in under 48 hours

After days of negotiations, I finally have my fall class schedule settled. When I set out, months ago, to determine my final semester of graduate seminars, I had no idea how involved it would get. Here are the stats:

• 6 professors and 3 administrative assistants from 4 departments
• 33 emails and 2 phone calls (plus 1 question via email to 2 fellow grad students)
• 3 potential classes, but room for only 1 on my schedule
• countless rules and regulations governing what class I could take (which ultimately narrowed it down to 1)
• 2 key questions at hand.... asked over and over and over again, without any satisfactory resolution

And all that just to get me enrolled in one course. Fall classes start in two short weeks and already it's looking to be an interesting ride!