Pick a Class, Any Class

A huge selling point for Hamilton is that you can take any class you want because the student body is small, and the curriculum is open. However, I've found this "choice" to be a manipulation, especially today. This may be due to the fact that I had an 11:15 registration time, but so many of the really cool classes I wanted to take only had a select number of seats for rising sophomores, or were capped at 20 in order to keep the small class feel. I completely understand the reasoning behind capping classes, as that is a very important characteristic of a small school. However, I found that it tied back to our discussion in class about how we are given choice, but we are also given parameters. These parameters are based on our class year, previous classes taken, and a randomly assigned class registration time. Even though we are told to explore all the classes we want, our choices are limited due to availability. It's a small school with small classes, but a large school has large classes; it's all relative.