badly written exams
Engineering exams should not be insanely difficult for incredibly stupid reasons: if an engineering exam is about %95 memorization, something's horribly wrong. So yeah, that's my electromagnetics exam in a nutshell. It gets bonus points 'cause the professor is a cheating nut, yet doesn't seem to get that nothing encourages cheating quite so much as an exam that's all memorization (and oh boy was there cheating). It's doubly fun that this is EM, so there are millions of ways to write exams without any memorization. And the memorization itself is beyond stupid: it's mostly table/constant stuff, which is stuff that should be referenced anyway when actually used. Ack, I hate this class and professor, but I don't have an option 'cause I'm so far ahead in my coursework.
So yeah, that's part of my course load for this semester. The other major course is Operating Systems, which has been review for way too long 'cause it totally overlaps with other courses and the professor I have is teaching it really basically. Also taking Humanities (music/art), so my class is mostly freshman and I'm running all over the city going to museums. (Finally went to Museum of the Native American: New York, which had an awesome exhibit on modern/contemporary/etc. art) Rounding out is my senior design project, for which I'm still working on my robot for IGVC. I've been so buried under politics and bureaucracy that it's still in a everything needs to get accomplished phase.