Assignment #5: "Proposal" (first draft)

Starting a new year at Bristol Community College, especially your first year, is always stressful. Between signing up for classes and finding your way around the campus you also have to remember to get your books.

Like most freshmen starting their first year of college they assume that buying their books wont be such a big deal. But it is. After you get your schedule you need to head on over to the bookstore. The line to the bookstore is extremely long. So long that it cost me my first day of classes because I had to wait around so long. A lot of people have to wait in the line for well over and hour. Once you get into the bookstore, which is very crowded and small, you need to wait for someone to take your schedule and find your books. Unfortunately sometimes they don't have the book your looking for. Finally you get up to one of the five cash registers and computers. They ring up your books and your able to pay. But if you're like me then thats probably not the last time you'll be in the bookstore. If you drop out of the class, add a class, or need to go back for the book they didn't have last time, you'll need to stand in that long line again. It's not until a few weeks into classes that the line to the bookstore gets smaller and bearable to wait in.

But should we really have to wait in this long line just to get a couple overpriced books that we'll probably only use for one semester? There may be a solution to this problem though. I think that if the school got more registers to check out our books at that the line will go faster. I also think another problem is how the bookstore staff go about helping people find their books. Perhaps there could be a separate line for people waiting for someone to find their books and then another line for paying for our books. A more permanent solution could be for the school to make their bookstore bigger so it doesn't feel so crowded and people could go about finding their own books. That would of course cost a lot more money then it would be if they just bought a few more computers and hired a couple more people.

There has to be a more organized and less stressful way to go about buying our books. Beginning a new school year is tough enough without having to worry about finding the time to buy your books.