coursework ongoing
Nov. 25th, 2024 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishCoursework continues, though it's nearly done with: everything is due Thursday night. Stupid Rob's stupid database class has morphed into stupid Rob's stupid web-programming class, which makes me genuinely irritated. Partly because I am dead certain there's more about databases I would like to learn beyond "here are a couple of javascript calls for getting info out of them, wrapped up in a bunch of other javascript you now have to learn" but mostly because stupid Rob's stupid programming lectures and quizzes are abjectly terrible for my learning. The lectures are repetitive and still manage to miss out on useful basic information (and were actively Wrong at least once last fall, which was fun). The quizzes are nitpicky, concerned with things that were covered briefly in lecture and not at all on the slides, and in some cases explicitly testing our ability to read Rob's mind.
Two more lectures, one more lab, one more quiz, and gods willing I will never have to deal with stupid Rob ever again. Databases 2, next term, is taught by Chris who also taught the Intro To GIS course last fall; it was pretty easy even for an intro course, but I have really no idea what to expect. But At Least It's Not Rob. (Or Josh, who last winter threatened me under the BCIT Student Code Of Conduct for griping at him in code comments about his uncompletable-as-designed lab and, separately, expressing my opinions on the use of "AI" "assistance".)
My practicum is also secured, through the BC gov. I'll be designing an interactive webmap of mountain-top radio repeaters throughout the province. I'm looking forward to this. Just have to get through the process of writing up the proposal, to include breaking the whole thing down into tiny tasks and assigning a time to each. Ugh.
Databases 2 starts on 10 January (Friday); the practicum starts on 20 January (Monday). Both of those run through the end of March, and then I've one more class starting the first week in April through mid-late June. And then ... done, I guess. Time to start seeking gainful employment, assuming the practicum doesn't wholly sour me on GIS work.
Overall things are okay, I think. Not great, but okay. And hopefully better after Thursday. I'll take it.
Two more lectures, one more lab, one more quiz, and gods willing I will never have to deal with stupid Rob ever again. Databases 2, next term, is taught by Chris who also taught the Intro To GIS course last fall; it was pretty easy even for an intro course, but I have really no idea what to expect. But At Least It's Not Rob. (Or Josh, who last winter threatened me under the BCIT Student Code Of Conduct for griping at him in code comments about his uncompletable-as-designed lab and, separately, expressing my opinions on the use of "AI" "assistance".)
My practicum is also secured, through the BC gov. I'll be designing an interactive webmap of mountain-top radio repeaters throughout the province. I'm looking forward to this. Just have to get through the process of writing up the proposal, to include breaking the whole thing down into tiny tasks and assigning a time to each. Ugh.
Databases 2 starts on 10 January (Friday); the practicum starts on 20 January (Monday). Both of those run through the end of March, and then I've one more class starting the first week in April through mid-late June. And then ... done, I guess. Time to start seeking gainful employment, assuming the practicum doesn't wholly sour me on GIS work.
Overall things are okay, I think. Not great, but okay. And hopefully better after Thursday. I'll take it.