Hm, I was able to have a full counseling appointment at my local community college (OCC) without having to register but I am a former student so that may have been why.

Now's a bad time to register because the Fall semester has already started but maybe you can find a late starting class or apply for admission and wait for the Summer or Spring to get into a class. There are lots of 1 unit "fun" classes at a community college. If you can get your hands on the community college's catalog (probably online now a days) you might be able to learn most of what you need to know from that. At OCC, there also used to be flyers in the counseling office that detailed what classes to take to transfer in each major as well as the catalogs for local Universities. I used to work as a student assistant in the OCC counseling department and I learned a ton from just reading the catalogs.