This is ridiculous

Alkatran

My university classes start today so I did the first real look at my schedule and realized: all my hard classes are on the same days!

On one day I have social and ethical issues in computer science and user interface design and on the other day I get modern physics, calculus 3 and analysis of algorithms.

Ugh. Boring day, too-much-information day, boring day, ...

Kurdt

The schedulers almost seem to do it for fun. Glad I graduated this summer.

Gokul43201

Yikes! Those look crazy hard to me. Bet I'd never get a halfway decent grade in either one.

Moonbear

Maybe I'm just different, or weird, but I would have preferred schedules like that, where all the tough classes are packed into the same day alternating with easier classes (though, from your list, I'm not sure which ones you think are the easy ones ). The reason is that you can also alternate your studying and assignments. On the day when you have light classes, you can spend the rest of the day really studying hard because you aren't burnt out from the lectures, then on the days when your brain is just fried from the hard core classes, you can do the assignments for your easy classes.

Of course, part of it has to do with how many credits a course is worth and how many times a week it meets. If a class is meeting 3 times a week, the schedulers are being kind if they make it meet Mon, Wed, Fri, and put the 2 times a week classes on Tues, Thurs. It's just evil when they give you a class schedule with a class that meets Mon, Thurs, Fri, or Mon, Tues, Thurs, because those two days that you have it in a row just make it nearly impossible to keep up with the assignments, especially if you have a lot of other classes those days as well, so can't just spend the remainder of the day doing your assignments.

Alkatran

Haha, philosophy and ethics classes I can do in my sleep. You don't even have to be right, as long as you argue well. There's even only going to be two 5-7 page assignements!

Ivan Seeking

Due to overload, I ended up reading Plato's Republic during the half hour before the final. It turned out that the final covered only one subject: Plato's Republic.

Aced it. To this day I think he never read my paper; that the grade was based what he expected and not what he actually got.

Cyrus

Pfft Plato.....have you read Heidegger!??

Ivan Seeking

No, but if I have an extra fifteen minutes I will.

franznietzsche

Personally I'm a fan of....well, do i even have to actually say it?

Cyrus

Here is an example of a quote from Heidegger Ivan:

(1) thingless and (2) thingness are NOT words.....:ugg:

franznietzsche

Umm, you do realize that Heidegger did not write in english right? Take that issue up with the translator.

Alkatran

Pfft. In my first year philosophy class the teacher literally READ THE EXAM TO US two days before the exam! She even told us it was the exam and that we should write down the questions! We discussed answers!!!

franznietzsche

Gotta love those classes.

Reminds me of my Poltical Economy class.

Cyrus

Yes...............

gravenewworld

7 final exams in 3 straight days=worst entire 72 hours of my life.

MeJennifer

That person does not deserve the title teacher and should have been fired.

Moonbear

How many people still got the answers wrong? My PhD mentor used to do this with just one question on the exam. He'd tell them the question and the exact answer, remind them that it would show up on the exam in that exact wording, write it on the board, and then make a bet with the students--if every student in the class got the answer right, he'd come to class with his underwear on outside his clothing. The year I was a TA in the class, a student even got up just before the exam was about to start and reminded the class of the bet and the answer. My mentor thought he was done for that year...who would get a question wrong when they had just been reminded moments before the exam started? I was the one grading the exam, and was just dying to see everyone get that question right and give him the news. He still won the bet. How can a class be handed an answer just before the exam and STILL get it wrong?