completely fair course scheduling
A talk with Mark today yielded a lot of potential options and a good amount of negative stress. As it turns out, Satya and company have in the works a systems-focused fifth-year masters' program for CS. Involved classes would be 15-712 and 15-610, plus probably electives, and (here's the really cool part) instead of pure research, which is not entirely fitting for "people who want to build systemsy stuff" (as Mark put it), the program would involve having the student working on a big important project in a sort of cooperative arrangement with a company such as Intel or Google. This would be essentially ideal for me, though it's not clear if it will pull through all the way yet.
My schedule for the following semester looks as follows:
MWF 0900: 15-610 "Eng Cmplx Lg Cmp Sys" (by Satya)
TR 0900: 15-221 The Dreaded Tech-Comm
TR 1030: 15-417 [drop it like it's] HOT Compilation
TR 1330: 85-310 Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology (?)
MWF 1030: 21-355 Real Analysis (?)
M ???? : 15-213 TAing
610 and techom go hand-in-hand, since they both appear to refrain from being at any sort of reasonable time, and if I am to do both of them, I may as well get both of them out of the way at the same time, that there may be only one semester in which I have to perform sleep schedule acrobatics. With such a class schedule, I should be able to pull off a bimodal sleep schedule, in which I swap my earliest 4 hours of awake time and latest 4 hours of sleep time - it would take some effort, but I know I can do it, since it happened on accident during my senior year of highschool.
I've been planning to do HOT since signing up for clogic this semester.
As it turns out, for a psych minor (which I'd been vaguely planning on) I will be needing lots more classes, and for a math minor - which I asked about out of curiosity - I need two more classes: real analysis, and one other elective. The idea I came up with upon hearing that was to do a math minor instead of a psych minor, with a disorganized splash of psych classes. The research methods class is needed for psych, but also fulfills a lab requirement for CS; experimental fishsticks, done last fall, if I take research methods, instead gets counted as science instead of lab, so I could easily drop research methods upon deciding to abandon the psych minor, but would then need a science class. Hence, research methods and real analysis are at this juncture interchangeable, and I'm not sure which one I want to do.
My schedule for the following semester looks as follows:
MWF 0900: 15-610 "Eng Cmplx Lg Cmp Sys" (by Satya)
TR 0900: 15-221 The Dreaded Tech-Comm
TR 1030: 15-417 [drop it like it's] HOT Compilation
TR 1330: 85-310 Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology (?)
MWF 1030: 21-355 Real Analysis (?)
M ???? : 15-213 TAing
610 and techom go hand-in-hand, since they both appear to refrain from being at any sort of reasonable time, and if I am to do both of them, I may as well get both of them out of the way at the same time, that there may be only one semester in which I have to perform sleep schedule acrobatics. With such a class schedule, I should be able to pull off a bimodal sleep schedule, in which I swap my earliest 4 hours of awake time and latest 4 hours of sleep time - it would take some effort, but I know I can do it, since it happened on accident during my senior year of highschool.
I've been planning to do HOT since signing up for clogic this semester.
As it turns out, for a psych minor (which I'd been vaguely planning on) I will be needing lots more classes, and for a math minor - which I asked about out of curiosity - I need two more classes: real analysis, and one other elective. The idea I came up with upon hearing that was to do a math minor instead of a psych minor, with a disorganized splash of psych classes. The research methods class is needed for psych, but also fulfills a lab requirement for CS; experimental fishsticks, done last fall, if I take research methods, instead gets counted as science instead of lab, so I could easily drop research methods upon deciding to abandon the psych minor, but would then need a science class. Hence, research methods and real analysis are at this juncture interchangeable, and I'm not sure which one I want to do.