Beginning Japanese I

One thing I can also recommend to first year students at RIT is to change your own schedule. If you're a first year, your schedule is assigned for you, and you can see it through SIS. If you check it as soon as you can, for a while it will just be empty. You can try to sign up for classes, but it will just tell you that first year students will be scheduled by their college. Somewhere around mid-July, your schedule will appear, but you still can't sign up for anything. Eventually, around mid-late-August, SIS will open up for you to edit. If you're in, say, a cultural anthropology class from 6pm to 8pm, and you hate the idea of having a class that late, mess around with the system. Look for an open class at a better time and, once you've found it, drop your cultural anthropology class and sign up for the new one. It's important for you to be in classes that work well for you. It's probably a good idea to check with your academic advisor to make sure your worksheet is up to date though

Due to this sneaky work-around, I was able to take Beginning Japanese I my first quarter. I'm currently the only freshman in my class (though there is a senior in high school who appears to be hanging out with us), but that's okay. The upperclassman don't bite.