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Haha, I love Mass Effect. There's a quest where you can help a drug addict by getting a stimulant for him, but you can buy a downer instead and give it to him, and he starts cursing at you with slurred speech.
Anyway, in the real world, which is far less interesting, I'm worried about my computer science class. I think it's a foregone conclusion that I'm going to make the lowest grade of my life in this class, and whether or not I'm going to pass is still up in the air. The grading is just so draconian. I got a 15 out of 100 on the second project because I could never get it to quite work right, and given that I put something like 20 hours into the project, I just don't really know why I bother anymore. It's like the professor grades in binary: you either get a 1 or a 0 on these projects.
I wouldn't be quite as angry about this if the teaching in the class was better. The professor basically tells us the concepts, and without giving any actual code examples while ensuring that the code in the book is nigh useless due to the rules for the projects, he expects us to come up with hilariously huge programs that work perfectly. No credit is given for trying, or demonstrating that you were at least understanding the concepts but could not get the execution down exactly right. Which is sort of ironic, given that he only teaches the concepts, after all.
I have another project due at the end of this week. I know I can get it to at least partially work, but there's an aspect to it that I have no idea how to implement. We'll see how things go. I know I'm definitely not going to put 20 hours into this project only to fail.
Anyway, in the real world, which is far less interesting, I'm worried about my computer science class. I think it's a foregone conclusion that I'm going to make the lowest grade of my life in this class, and whether or not I'm going to pass is still up in the air. The grading is just so draconian. I got a 15 out of 100 on the second project because I could never get it to quite work right, and given that I put something like 20 hours into the project, I just don't really know why I bother anymore. It's like the professor grades in binary: you either get a 1 or a 0 on these projects.
I wouldn't be quite as angry about this if the teaching in the class was better. The professor basically tells us the concepts, and without giving any actual code examples while ensuring that the code in the book is nigh useless due to the rules for the projects, he expects us to come up with hilariously huge programs that work perfectly. No credit is given for trying, or demonstrating that you were at least understanding the concepts but could not get the execution down exactly right. Which is sort of ironic, given that he only teaches the concepts, after all.
I have another project due at the end of this week. I know I can get it to at least partially work, but there's an aspect to it that I have no idea how to implement. We'll see how things go. I know I'm definitely not going to put 20 hours into this project only to fail.