Today was my birthday and what better present than an EXO comeback! The entire album is pure perfection. So far my favorite songs are Transformer, El Dorado, My Answer, Exodus, and Call me Baby of course, but all the songs are really great so it's difficult to just pick one! I hear too much 백열 though and not enough of the other 8.

The music video was just released like an hour ago and I can't stop watching it(gotta keep adding to the views.) Everything about Suho is on point, from the outfits to the hair, his dancing, EVERYTHING. It amazes me how he and the rest of the boys only get more handsome as time goes by. When will I turn into a beautiful butterfly?!

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Last time I studied abroad I said I would blog about it, but I failed to keep up an actual blog and started using Instagram to capture all my adventures in South Korea. Fast forward two years later and here I am again, getting ready to study at Yonsei once more. However, this time I'll make sure to keep up with this blog and share my adventure with ya'll(Yes, I'm from Texas.)

So far, I've been accepted to go by my home university. Now the real fun begins. I have to send my application to Yonsei, wait for my acceptance packet, apply for my visa and for the dorms, and the real fun part of course registration!

I'll start blogging about the application process again, so I can get used to this blogging thing. Maybe I'll start blogging about some of my daily life activities here in Texas, but I'm sure you guys want to get to the good part. Korea, here I come!

I think that this part has been the most difficult step so far, even more than applying to Yonsei and for a student visa, but it didn't have to be as difficult and stressful as they made it seem. I was stressing out for no reason worrying that I wouldn't get the classes I needed.

First of all, Yonsei sent us this e-mail:



I was like, "Oh, that doesn't sound so hard," so I waited until Aug. 6 to see if I could log into the portal. I tried to log in on Aug. 6 at 12am KST, but had no success. I tried again around 8am KST(it's not set up to open automatically at midnight, someone has to be at the office to actually open the portal) and was able to log in with the default password(birthday in YYMMDD format) they set up for me. A lot of other people were having trouble logging in, but it turned out that Yonsei had gotten their birth dates wrong.

Then on Aug. 8 at 7am KST I logged on to make my wishlist and had no problems, just remember to use IE because the portal may not work properly on another browser. I was just waiting until 10am KST to actually enroll into my classes when I saw something like this:

MAX CAPACITY:5!! I started searching everywhere to see if it was really true that only 2-5 people could enroll per class. Then I stumbled across this blog:



This girl does a really good job at guiding you through the course registration up until where she mentions that there are only 5 slots per class and that she was lucky to have gotten the classes she wanted because a lot of her friends didn't get a slot. So there I was ready to click away once the clock hit excatly 10am KST. I managed to enroll in 3/5 of the classes I wanted, and after the FIVE seconds it took me to enroll in those 3 the others said there were no more seats available! I was upset because Korean and Intro to Korean Marketing Practices were already filled up. Pretty much all the other classes taught in English said 0 seats available so I thought I was going to have to wait until the second course registration.

However, I checked again about an hour later and almost all of the classes had increased their max. capacity by A LOT! So I signed up for the two classes I was missing and felt stupid for panicking so much. I guess Yonsei just wanted to torment us by making us think the majority of us wouldn't get the classes we wanted.

I hope this saves someone in the future from panicking like I did. You'll most likely get the class you want!

UPDATE 7/21/15:
So people have told me that the registration systems is not on a first-come first-serve basis anymore. I'm not sure how it works yet, but you choose classes and then are notified which ones you made it into.

I originally planned to leave somewhere between August 10th-14, but I just realized that if I leave that early I'll only have $200 to live on for a week, or at least until my scholarship and financial aid money comes in. I'm just going to wait for that money to come in and leave two days before the the move-in date for the dorms. At least I'm glad that I got accepted to the I-house dorm. From what I've seen many people didn't get accepted because both SK Global and I-house are full now! Now I just have to figure how to wire money to their bank to pay for it.