After a long week of exams, homework and studying, there’s nothing better than knowing it’s the weekend — unless you’re one of the many OU students who have to attend a Friday class.

“I would rather have my classes be longer on Mondays and Wednesdays than have a Friday class,” junior Ivana Vitosevic said.

Logging into SAIL to schedule classes, students hope to get a schedule  that is as least hectic as possible and fits in with their extracurricular activities and lives outside of school.

Senior Bernie Mighion has anthropology, anatomy and physiology on Fridays.

“It doesn’t really bother me, Mighion said. “Although if I only had one Friday class and had to drive all the way to campus for one class I would be annoyed, that’s why I tried to schedule more.”

Sometimes students have no choice but to take Friday classes because they may need a course that happens to only be offered on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If they are also taking courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays, it usually results in an exhausting semester.

“Getting students to utilize five days of the week and be active these days is ideal,” Registrar Steven Shablin said.

Departments such as Writing and Rhetoric, Mathematics, Languages and others usually have Friday classes. Many students wonder why some courses are only offered MWF.  

Each academic unit is responsible for offering the classes and determining when they meet. However, they don’t choose to make students attend these days for no reason. There are certain preferences and requirements that are kept in mind when creating course schedules for students to pick from.

“The way the MWF schedule works is in order to offer four credit hour classes, those MWF classes must meet for 67 minutes three days a week,” said Lori Ostergaard, Chair of the Writing and Rhetoric department at Oakland University. “This isn’t only a choice departments or individuals make, it has to do with the room schedules as well.”

Whether a student is an undergraduate or not will also influence their schedule.

“With a lot of sections to run, we don’t really have the luxury of picking and choosing when our classes will meet,” Ostergaard said. “For a few years, we offered our MWF classes as Monday, Wednesday, online Friday classes.

“Now we eliminated the online requirement and went back to regular MWF classes because some teachers preferred working in the classroom with their students three full days a week.”