Summer School Issues

Though I've graduated, I'm still a couple of classes shy. Literally, two classes shy. I'll take one during the fall, but I still need to take one in the summer... in Pasadena. I registered for the class but I got put on the waiting list. "Not a big deal," I thought, coming from my Cal experience. It's for my major, I'm a third year student, and I need it to graduate. Somebody else will get bumped out. Or so I thought. Apparently, it doesn't work that way in seminary. I got a notice a week ago saying that I got dropped out of the class... two weeks before the first day of class.

I've already bought 5 round-trip tickets to Burbank (because the class is on Monday and Wednesday nights, I'm flying in on Monday and flying back on Thursday so that I can be home on the weekends). I bought the books for the class. Yes, I was freaking out.

Now, one week later, I'm back on the waiting list, #1 on the waiting list to be precise and I've been told to just show up on the first day (this coming Monday) with no guarantee that I'll be admitted into the class. Yes, I'm officially in enrollment limbo.

I'm wondering if I should use some un-Christ-like strong arm tactics like staring one of the students down at the beginning of class saying, "I believe you're in my seat" or erasing one of the student's names from the enrollment confirmation sheet that gets passed around during the first class session.