Greatest Schedule Ever?

The University of Sydney has an interesting timetabling solution; classes are generally offered at multiple times and don’t have enrollment caps (with some exceptions, for studio classes, and other hands on/materials based classes). You do not get to pick which specific class periods you get assigned to; the timetabling algorithm does that for you and returns a personalized timetable for every student. You *do* get to block off either an entire day, or two specific periods of time up to 5 hours long. At first, I blocked out friday and let it make a schedule for me. When I did this, It gave me a schedule with no class on monday, and no class on friday (4 day weekend!). This was great, but I wondered if there was any way I could do better. So I set out to go to each faculty’s website and look at the timetables to see all the times my classes could possibly meet. I put these all into an iCal calendar and deleted any times that conflicted. This was the result:

Somebody must love me. As you can see, none of my classes meet on monday, so that leaves monday effectively blocked out. Blocking out the time when photography meets on friday blocks out all of friday, and blocking out the time ceramics meets on tuesday blocks out all of tuesday. Viola! 5 day weekend! This is the resulting (official) timetable for my classes:

So Wednesday, my schedule looks like this:

Philosophy of Happiness (Lecture) 12:00PM – 2:00PM
Photography (Studio) 2:00PM – 5:00PM
Ceramics (Studio) 5:30PM – 8:30PM

And on Thusrday, like this:

Digital Arts (Lecture) 10:00AM – 12:00PM
Digital Arts (Tutorial) 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Philosophy of Happiness (Tutorial) 3:00PM -4:00PM

And I get the rest of the week off! I could possibly be the luckiest guy in the world. I’m in Australia taking four great classes (Photography, Ceramics, Digital Art, and The Philosophy of Happiness) for my last semester of school possibly ever, and I get a 5 day weekend! The possibilities for travel are now wide open; here’s to hoping I can get a flexible job that gets me some travel/spending money and lets me take off time to travel