Is America leaving college students behind? - Lisa Feierman, OpEdNews

I'm perched anxiously at my desk, fingers arched at the keyboard, cursor poised over the refresh button. The clock reads 3:59PM -- just one more minute. And then" 4:00. I'm frantically clicking buttons, entering the lengthy list of 5-digit numbers printed on the Post-It on my desk. And then, it's over. 4:03. I exhale and examine the damage. In the three minutes I spent adding my classes for next semester at University of California, Berkeley, I've managed to secure a seat in just one class" And I'm waitlisted for the rest. I'm numbers 38 and 41 for my major prerequisites -- the classes I have to get into if I have any hope of declaring the following semester. I curse aloud, but I know I'm not alone. I can practically hear the collective chorus of sighs and grunts of aggravation of the hundreds, maybe thousands, of students coming to the same realization at this very moment across campus. I'm frustrated that, while I was incredibly lucky this semester to get a decent online enrollment appointment date ahead of many of my friends, I still couldn't manage to catch a break.