Despite the title, life isn't exactly the same...the thought of exams in a week is always guaranteed to cause low spirits. Still have lots of work to do - most notably Systems Programming and Operating Systems. The rest of them are seemingly OK, but I don't know...Advanced Databases is easy and fun - no problems there. Computer Graphics is fun because of the algorithms, and is pretty ok otherwise - just the usual cartload of useless details that I've never quite gotten used to...Web Technologies is pretty ok, and so is Object Oriented Application Development(OOAD for short - that's quite a mouthful) - though they produce some strange questions there at times...
As predicted, I've lost my TopCoder blue rating - back down to green. Will have to work on that after the exams...
The interesting thing to note is how much easier it is to work at the TopCoder stuff in comparison to studying for the exams - despite the fact that it takes all your brains to handle algorithmic problem solving, and only a few boring functions to remember the stuff we have to regurgitate during exams...Maybe that is the problem - not enough room for intellectual stimulation in our syllabus. The very idea of having fun at it seems to be anathema to most engineering teachers...of course, they didn't enjoy it either, but why should suffering have to be such a fundamental part of engineering? Is it some kind of weird sadism in the guys who set things up or what? Nah...more likely they weren't very imaginative, and applied ancient educational models to modern subjects. This of course leaves us with teachers who have no enthusiasm for the subjects they teach, which leads to students with the same problem, who eventually become bored teachers, and so on. The classic vicious circle...
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes my blog for the day...Thank you and good night.
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