Tuesday, July 26, 2005
And so it came to be that my academic career hit rock bottom.
I am withdrawing from a course. An economics course, no less. I do not understand this teacher.
My pride is in shreds.
My pride is in shreds.
posted by Catrin
2 Comments:
[12:27 AM, July 27, 2005]
Mine was in CMPUT 204 (Introduction to Algorithms). The prof was a young, pudgy, hugable German who was probably about sixty IQ points above me -- but in the role playing game of life, his "Intelligence" was maxed out at the expense of his "Charisma."
I also had a TA. I think it was actually two grad students trying to TA the same seminar section, but they just provided the inspiration for Anonymotron's First Law of Second Languages: Two Chinese TAs who barely speak English are not as helpful as one Chinese TA who can speak English twice as well.
I also remember that one of the TAs had a sweater that said something like "MATH IS FUN!" And he wore it to every seminar. They're a special breed, those Comp Sci grad students.
Anyway, I made it as far along as the midterm when I realized I didn't know a goddamn thing, and that I'd probably be better off dropping the class. I showed up for the midterm, and instead of proving P=NP or doing whatever god-awful proofs the prof assigned, I wrote him a short story. I finished in about 20 minutes and was the first person to hand in my exam. The look of pained, confused concern on my prof's face as I handed in a clearly failing exam was one of the high points of that semester.
Afterward, I went directly to the Science undergrad office and dropped the class. Then, I went back to Lister and got drunk.
For months afterward, I'd check my mark on the CompSci grades server and admire the "0/40" with the kind of perverse satisfaction reserved for someone who just doesn't give a fuck.
That was the semester I spent leafing through the calendar looking for a future. I somehow ended up in Business, and while I've since come to regret that decision as well, it's at least more fun than Algorithms I.
So don't worry about it. Embrace your inner slack.
[12:26 PM, July 27, 2005]
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