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Tuesday, 2:22 pm in Archive

Why is it that the difficulty of a class seems to be inversly proportional to the amount of hours of it we are forced to endure a week? The more difficult the subject the less time we seem to actually spend in the class (eg. Graphics, OpSys, Admin), whereas the reverse is also true. Additionally, the stupidest classes also have the strictest “no leaving the lab before the time has expired, I don’t care if you did the exercise in the first ten minutes, stay or I fail you” rules. Databases was a case in point. Actually, any class with labs in the Windows rooms. Like this one.

I have a migrane. The last thing I should be doing is looking at a terminal for two hours. This is also the last thing I’m going to try and explain in a subject where the lecturer still thinks she can scale us if we fail the final exam (the university abolished this at the start of this year).

It doesn’t help that people around me are morons. Fail 204* multiple times kind of morons. If you can’t use UNIX, can’t program C, then you shouldn’t be doing a programming degree. 204 wasn’t easy, but that’s because it was a Saf course, and unlike most of the lecturers here Saf actually expects us to, a) do work, and b) have some kind of enthusiasm for the subject. I didn’t go to 204 labs, but that’s because they were at 8:30am on Friday and there wasn’t anything in them that I couldn’t’ve done at home, via SSH to banshee**.

There is, also, nothing in this class I couldn’t do at home. And yet, here I am.

My head hurts.

* CSCI204: The C Family and Unix.
** The undergrad UNIX machine.

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