My annual science fictional final exam: signing up for panels at Readercon

Readercon is my favorite local science fiction convention. It has a considerably more academic/litcrit slant than most cons, and focuses entirely on written fiction.

That's all fine. But it does have the longest, and most intimidating panel sign up I have ever encountered. It takes me more than an hour to fill out. Just reading and comprehending the dense paragraph describing each panel takes me back to the SAT. I always feel a bit of relief when I get to the end and don't see lines of ovals t...