7:00 a.m. is too early. Course Enroll, what pre-enrollment is commonly referred to at Cornell University, should not be so early in the morning. A better time would be more like 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. is early but it isn’t too early. You can wake up at 9:00 a.m. and enroll in courses and continue with your day, seamlessly. For example, if you have a class at 10:10 for which you typically wake up at 9:25, it’s not too much of an inconvenience to wake up a half-hour earlier, at 8:55, to enroll is classes. 8:55, by the way, to allow for five minutes of preparation. This involves turning on your laptop, connecting to the internet and dealing with that general early-morning fogginess.

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.