Did anyone go through this in College...

[novasatori]

Happened to me with Cultural Geography and Art History.

Got an A in both, but I damn well earned it, they were significantly harder than I was anticipating.

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Farang
I've also had a teacher ask, as a question on the mid-term 'In class I told a story about a country I visited where I was robbed by some young kids--what country was this?' Unbelievable. (obviously that is an easy question but just the fact that she would ask something so irrelevant shows how dumb some of these professors are)

Pfff, took an accounting course in college where on the finals the bonus question was "what's my dog's name."

I had a Business Management class where the teacher asked questions based on his "Life stories" he gave in classes. Unfortunately I had a horribly long commute and other than those questions, the exams were a piece of cake, right off the power points. Well I eventually stopped going on regular days due to the commute and relative ease.. but the final had like 40% of the questions like that. I got a D in the course, my only one.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

WTF, withdraw credits? I assume you can drop before a certain date even without these withdraw credits, right? You'll just have to be careful from now on

Yes but that date was about 3 weeks into the semester. If I were to drop now I would accept a Fail for the class.

You only have 4.5 hrs of homework per week? Are you just lazy or something? Tack on another few hours per week for all of those deliverables, that's maybe 8 hrs per WEEK maximum.

What is so hard about this class again? It sounds like the work load is mediocre.

No.... there is much more than 4.5 hours of homework. the regular deliverables I mistyped (There are 6 for the school year)... the problem lies in the fact that all of these things are due one after another every week.

Not to mention that the material covered in Labs, On Tests, and in Class are all completely different.

Additionally, keep in mind that this is 3 credits out of 15 credits that I am taking. I still have another CS course, a Communications Course, that crazy religion course, and Differential Equations (But I like Diff Eq and find it pretty easy).

I know College is hard and it is my job as a student to do all of this, but it seems like that course as well as the religion course are slightly ridiculous.

-Kevin

You said there were 3 homework assignments per week at 1.5 hours a piece. 3*1.5 = 4.5.

3x HW assignments a week (Est 1.5 hours for each)...
Regular Deliverables (about 13-15 hours of programming for each one) there are 6 total ...
Final Project Deliverables (about 13-15 hours of programming for each one) there are 3 total

When you include the other projects we're talking no more than 8-10 hours per week of take-home work. That's pretty standard. Even if you push it to 12, that's not too bad. Let's say it's an average of 10 hours plus 3 hours of lecture, that's 13 hours * 5 classes = 65 hours per week for a full load of courses. That's nothing.

Are you on the quarter system or the semester system?

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Farang
I've also had a teacher ask, as a question on the mid-term 'In class I told a story about a country I visited where I was robbed by some young kids--what country was this?' Unbelievable. (obviously that is an easy question but just the fact that she would ask something so irrelevant shows how dumb some of these professors are)

Pfff, took an accounting course in college where on the finals the bonus question was "what's my dog's name."

I think that's acceptable as a bonus question... if you can answer it, you get extra credit. If you can't, you're not penalized (you just don't get a reward)

 

[LtPage1]

That's a BS class. There's no argument for why memorizing worthless facts you could just look up are good for you, or a well rounded education in the humanities. Take the grade, complain to everyone with any influence over the professor (starting with the professor), and don't let it color your impression of non-engineering classes.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Make friends with upper classman maybe even the secretary of the CS department and get info on classes/teachers before signing up for them.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
My intro CS class was on Scheme (a lisp derivative). I hated that language, but by the end of the semester, I could do recursion like a mother...

I found Scheme kind of interesting... used that in my Programming Languages class along with some other languages. Wrote a compiler in that class... it was fun .