So... much to do

So... I'm sitting in Pascal, waiting until it's time to leave and catch the bus home. I just resubmitted my CS250 assignment 3, because when they handed the hardcopies back today, there was a note on mine that they didn't have my electronic copy. I'd say "What the hell?" but honestly, I'm too apathetic to care. It's resubmitted and will now be graded by Ghali himself rather than the TA. I'll make low marks on it, for sure.

So... there's still the giant CS260 networking assignment due tomorrow. I've made little progress on this since the last time I mentioned it. I'm going to try when I get home, of course, but I don't really foresee making much more progress between now and tomorrow either.

So... there's still the CS280 assignment due Thursday upon which I haven't started, due to working on the CS260 and the previously mentioned CS250 assignment 5 which I turned in on Monday. And there's a Physics homework due on Thursday, which I also haven't started.

So... there's the gold milestone for the game due on Friday.

Come the weekend, for better or for worse, all that will be left are finals.

So... there're still the finals to do.

Dreamfall and Kingdom Hearts 2

Just received a phone call from EB Games saying that my pre-order of Dreamfall should be there by tomorrow evening. I'll pick it up, but I certainly won't be playing it any time soon, as that would simply be academic suicide.

Besides, I want to play The Longest Journey again before starting on Dreamfall, and that probably won't happen until after I'm finished with Oblivion. On the other hand, I suppose I could take a break from Oblivion and play through TLJ and Dreamfall, and possibly Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2, as I'm very likely going to be picking KH2 up at EB as well when I get Dreamfall.

But anyway, yeah, I'm not going to be playing any games, other than our own for testing purposes, between now and probably the end of next week. *sighs and goes back to CS260*

Bottom-heavy course load

I was looking at the thread on the DigiPen LJ about how CS230 is now a co-requisite for GAM200 instead of a pre-requisite. And, hmm... something occurred to me.

Consider this... some of the freshmen are complaining that Lewis is having them make a second game for CS230, on top of the main GAM150 game, in spite of the problem that they didn't really have all that much experience due to screw ups with other instructors this year. (*cough*Hu*cough*)

Now. Consider this... some of the sophomores are complaining that Lewis is having us make a second game for CS260, on top of the main GAM250 game, in spite of the problem that we didn't really have all that much experience due to screws ups with other instructors this year. (*cough*Hu*cough*)

I feel kind of bad for Lewis. It's not his fault as such, and he's a great guy and all. In the case of the freshmen and CS230, most of the blame can be put on a) Arthur Hu, and b) Comair not giving them any programming assignments the first semester, for whatever strange reason, and in the case of the sophomores and CS260, pretty much all of the blame can be put on Arthur Hu. But, with that said, the above still kind of paints Lewis in a bad light as well, at least for me, now that I've noticed it. I'm just going to chalk it up to his relative inexperience, at least in the area of teaching at DigiPen what with him being new this semester and all, and the fact that it is likely that he simply doesn't yet ken to the notion of just how large the normal DigiPen workload is, even without having to do a whole second game.

As can be seen here, I'm hardly working working hard on the CS260 game. ...no, no strikethrough this time. I'll say it flat out. "Hardly working" is, at this point, a phrase that applies equally well when describing how much more effort I'm willing to put into this project and also when describing the state of the project itself. *nods sagely*

Only three more days, not counting exams........ Three more days.... *harggggglllll...*