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5/3/2004; 12:59 AM by Jim RoepckeLast Modified
5/3/2004; 12:59 AM by Jim RoepckeIn Response To
RE: Finishing what I started (#6842)Label
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On May 2, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:
> Congratulations, Jim! Sounds like you've got a lot of support behind
> you this time! Having recently emerged on the other side of some major
> educational challenges (to the point I considered dropping out at the
> beginning of the fall semester), I somewhat understand...
What's that saying, "if it's easy, it's not worth your time", or
something like that? The older I get the more I understand how honest
that is. The easy route is rarely the right one. It probably also
explains why I hated junior high-school so much, I was constantly
bored. Really, if school had been more challenging I might have built
a stronger work ethic. I started out with a weak one and didn't get
motivated to improve it, so I got away with being a lazy procrastinator
for a long long time. That plagues me to this day. I'm much much
better than a few years ago though.
> My new advisor (Craig Zilles) is teaching CS232
> <http://www-courses.cs.uiuc.edu/~cs232/> this semester, which sounds a
> lot like CSC 230 you mentioned. That was also the course for which I
> was a teaching assistant my first semester here; it's fun material if
> you've got the right mindset and professor.
I'm sure once I'm back at school I'll care again which professor I
have, but right now I'm so pumped I couldn't care less what the
professor is like. :-) At least I don't want to use that as an excuse
anymore.
I do remember one course I dropped because the prof was terrible. It
was the one course I took at the University of Alberta while I was
living there during my time as a contractor at Shell Canada. She was a
man-hating, man-bashing extremist-feminist who made her 1st-year
English students read an endless supply of short stories about single
mothers on welfare with deadbeat dads, and stories about evil men who
make war that cause suffering for women and children. I left the class
after she told an innocent jock student that his comment about a story
we read was, and I quote, "the stupidest thing I have ever heard".
As long as I don't get anyone that bad, I'll be fine. :-)
> Best of luck!
Thanks!
> (PS: it seems the "preview" button doesn't work, at least in Safari.)
D'oh. I don't think I've ever used the preview button, so I'm not
surprised. Sorry.
Jim
> Congratulations, Jim! Sounds like you've got a lot of support behind
> you this time! Having recently emerged on the other side of some major
> educational challenges (to the point I considered dropping out at the
> beginning of the fall semester), I somewhat understand...
What's that saying, "if it's easy, it's not worth your time", or
something like that? The older I get the more I understand how honest
that is. The easy route is rarely the right one. It probably also
explains why I hated junior high-school so much, I was constantly
bored. Really, if school had been more challenging I might have built
a stronger work ethic. I started out with a weak one and didn't get
motivated to improve it, so I got away with being a lazy procrastinator
for a long long time. That plagues me to this day. I'm much much
better than a few years ago though.
> My new advisor (Craig Zilles) is teaching CS232
> <http://www-courses.cs.uiuc.edu/~cs232/> this semester, which sounds a
> lot like CSC 230 you mentioned. That was also the course for which I
> was a teaching assistant my first semester here; it's fun material if
> you've got the right mindset and professor.
I'm sure once I'm back at school I'll care again which professor I
have, but right now I'm so pumped I couldn't care less what the
professor is like. :-) At least I don't want to use that as an excuse
anymore.
I do remember one course I dropped because the prof was terrible. It
was the one course I took at the University of Alberta while I was
living there during my time as a contractor at Shell Canada. She was a
man-hating, man-bashing extremist-feminist who made her 1st-year
English students read an endless supply of short stories about single
mothers on welfare with deadbeat dads, and stories about evil men who
make war that cause suffering for women and children. I left the class
after she told an innocent jock student that his comment about a story
we read was, and I quote, "the stupidest thing I have ever heard".
As long as I don't get anyone that bad, I'll be fine. :-)
> Best of luck!
Thanks!
> (PS: it seems the "preview" button doesn't work, at least in Safari.)
D'oh. I don't think I've ever used the preview button, so I'm not
surprised. Sorry.
Jim
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