Marks vs learning?
I'm at a point where I have to pick courses and right now I'm stuck between two courses - east asian culture, where I will undoubtedly learn something of interest and hey, I'll learn about the chinese, japanese and korean culture... or should I take a technical course (embedded real-time systems) where it SHOULD be easier just because of the topics covered and i tend to fair better in these type of courses? There's only 2 midterms, labs and a project - no final. As a result, the marks should be spread out and thus, not heavily weighed upon the performance of exams. East asian has 3 midterms - one for each culture, so it's also spread out, but it'll prolly be essay like. Sigh... Oh yeah, anyone got textbook connections? The place I normally go to is out of stock for one of my course!@#$$!@#@
posted by whoami at 9:50 PM
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Ha ha ha ha ha! Yup! Although I haven't met any GMs in-game... only talked to them while reporting bugs... Sigh, wish they could just give me everything :D
I say take the East Asian culture. Unless you absolutely need fantastic marks. I think I'm beginning to see what a waste of time some of the courses that I took for the sake of taking were. I'd much rather take a course I enjoy now.
I think social sciences are just as important as the technical stuff because really, it teaches us about the world.
Take East Asian culture! :)
Hey, yeah, that's what I feel right now - it's just that my other courses are starting to appear to be more time consuming/harder than I had originally planned, and I kind of want my last term to be smooth sailing :D But I suppose I should have listed another reason - the tech course is taught by a potential supervisor.... But yeah, thanks for your input and I do clearly agree with you - I'm still kicking myself for not learning chinese properly as a kid - now even some gui lo's are catching up....
Anyway, I need sleep as I'm sitting in on his course tomorrow morning...
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