Week Ten

            The past week was the tenth week of class, so only five remain till the end. The past week was fairly uneventful in the class proceedings. We went over more material of the course without much issue, though the professor did send out an email mentioning how no one seems to go to his office hours, where he offered to help in both current class work and overall academic career issues. The email of course reinforces my long running comment on how Professor Downing cares about his students’ well-being both inside and outside of the classroom setting. Anyways, the typical idea is that going to your professor’s office hours is probably for the best, though I cannot speak personally for Professor Downing’s since I have never been to them, but it stands to reason that they would probably help if you are having trouble with an academic issue. Though if I am to justify why I myself have yet to go to one of his office hours than that is simply because my schedule leaves me with very few free times during the week to do so and those I do have are typically taken up by some work or university bureaucracy nonsense, but I digress.

            This week also involved further group work on the project, which thus far has been going slowly. The group design is still useful and good, though my group may be running into an issue, not because we are bad students or are trying to shirk the work, but because we are good students and this is the time of the semester when classes start trying to either cram in the last bit of material or tests before starting to push the work for the final. I am not trying to say anything negative about any class, but it must be said that a computer science course does require a lot of outside work to program and reinforce the material. I think some forget that even though it is not a major specific course, that it still involves a lot of programming. So for those who are thinking about taking this course, make sure you can handle all the work along with your other classes.