Bottom-heavy course load

[kane_magus]

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...*

Comments

[imbikun.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the CS260 we've taken over the past few weeks would've made a great semester long course. The stuff we've been asked to do, given all the other stuff we've been asked to do, is insane. Raise your hand if you bombed the Aristidou quiz because you were too burned out to study *Raises Hand*

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally forgot that there was even going to be an Aristidou quiz yesterday until someone mentioned it at the end of Mead's class.

[drxcapio.livejournal.com]

Well, my stars! Sophomores complaining? I've never heard such a thing!

Sorry, but you can't bitch both when the courseload is too light AND too heavy. It's only too heavy now so you have a chance to catch up with the curriculum, and that's a very good thing.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Speaking for myself, at least, I honestly can't recall ever bitching about the courseload being too light, nor can I recall anyone else doing so either. If you're referring to the big flap over Hu, I wouldn't really consider the nine to eleven homework assignments that Hu gave out in the first half of the semester (I lost count due to them being renumbered and such) as being a light courseload. They were fairly trivial and asinine assignments for the most part, granted, but they still had to be done and took time to do. This in addition to all the stuff for other classes, of course. What crazy sophomores have you been talking to who have been bitching about the courseload being too light?