Ridiculous!

[euca]

I took my networking midterm today, it took 10 minutes. No joke. It’s not because I am brilliant, it contained just 17 multiple choice questions. I stayed up till 3:30am studying for it, in excruciating detail. Anyone what to talk about how DHCP or DNS* works

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[tabert]

That's really too bad--I got a ton out of the networking class. That's the main problem with Informatics, in my opinion. There are a bunch of half-assed CS rejects and others who dick off the entire time they're in the program and produce shitty work, and the faculty is often too scared to give a shitty grade to anyone. However, the program is really sweet if you make it sweet. You both should do an Independent Study with a prof you know and respect, and I think you'll find it to be a really great experience. I did two and it led to me working at Intel Research and going to cool conferences, and doing awesome work in some of my classes....

But I know it's a frustrating program, and I can imagine moreso now that you've got double the cohort size...I don't know...some classes seemed like such a waste and others seemed real great but only if you made them great....like INFO 447, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, was awesome, but all the kids who took it the next time it was offered hated it, but only because the bitched about how much reading it was, didn't do the reading, and then dismissed it as shitty. My friend and I totally got into it and ended up basing our capstone off of it...

I don't know, it's a mixture of good and bad...

[tabert]

Ohh, and that shit pisses me off--the iSchool has some really great faculty but they've also got some shitty ones too...when we took it, it was probably the best and broadest networking course taught at the school...only a CS class went deeper into the specific programming say of a network protocol, but for practical applications 341 was the best and the B-school as usual couldn't hold a candle too it.

Who is teaching it?

[tabert]

Oh, I know they do, its just kind of hit or miss sometime faculty wise. The guy they have teaching is Bob Larson, I think its his first quarter at the iSchool.

[tabert]

The textbook selection for this course is very telling: Networking for Dummies. I kid you not.