Although the last day to add a class was on Friday, students who took advantage of this deadline might now realize they have bitten off more than they can chew. Anyone who added a class last week is already behind on three weeks worth of reading, problem sets and other homework — a daunting task for students who must also keep up with the current and future work assigned for the course.

The current Add/Drop system forces students to choose their courses quickly, while preventing them from taking academic risks and sampling a wide variety of courses. The University should take steps to ensure that students have an adequate system for finding suitable courses.

Add/drop. What a miserable phrase. Add/Drop. Ain’t no passing craze. It’s not even hyphenated like self-respecting series’ of connecting words. It uses a forward slash, which is the bastard redheaded stepchild of Father Punctuation. But what’s really terrible about it is the fact that it means pretty much nothing beyond a headache with Cornell software.

Why do we not have a shopping period here? And why do we kind of pretend we can add courses three weeks into the semester? Every Cornell student that has yet to receive a major blow to the head realizes that if you add a course after the first week you are behind. And after the second week, well, you’re drowning in a rapidly flushing toilet filled with a Big Red deuce.