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question for cs students.
- Thread starter Roscowgo
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So you need help with time management?
I work full time in the industry and I also go to school. My school is part time - my last semester now. One thing that you could try is cutting your hours by just a few - I managed to cut mine to 35/week and I am still considered full time.
It's not too bad - but cs does require a lot of work.
Cut down a little on work, take one class less. Better to take one extra year than fail half of your classes.
I work full time in the industry and I also go to school. My school is part time - my last semester now. One thing that you could try is cutting your hours by just a few - I managed to cut mine to 35/week and I am still considered full time.
It's not too bad - but cs does require a lot of work.
Cut down a little on work, take one class less. Better to take one extra year than fail half of your classes.
I'm currently going with the fewer classes method. I'm in the midst of a 4 part system update. All new infrastructure, servers, routers, switches, the whole shebang. New records system replacing 20+ year old command line entry enviroment. New financial system also replacing same 20+ software. And a redone telemedicine system.
Stress? what stress? heh.
I find I have to allocate about 5 hours a night to programming if i'm taking one of the programming courses. Otherwise I quickly get behind the curve. If I manage to get some time away from paying to curse syntax, then I try to keep the core concepts fresh by playing with simple projects. I even managed to whip up a little c++ app that a couple of my users use. It sucks, but I'm proud of it.
Stress? what stress? heh.
I find I have to allocate about 5 hours a night to programming if i'm taking one of the programming courses. Otherwise I quickly get behind the curve. If I manage to get some time away from paying to curse syntax, then I try to keep the core concepts fresh by playing with simple projects. I even managed to whip up a little c++ app that a couple of my users use. It sucks, but I'm proud of it.
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Less classes, more time to dedicate to each class, better grades.
I honestly didnt feel i needed to put in alot of hours for my CS classes to do well. I was able to follow along during lectures and didnt need to study endlessly to understand what was going on and the weekends gave me enough time to take care of projects and assignments. But things did get a little hairy during the last 2 weeks of a semester, thankfully my job allowed me to shift around hours.
I agree with this.
Right now I am doing 20 hours at work and I am taking 12 credit hours at the university 8 of the credit hours are 2 cs classes. One isn't so bad, maybe 4-6 hours of homework a week. The other though is rough like 20+ hours a week for me, class average is 30+ hours a week on the homework. University policy is supposed to be up to 3 times the credit hours of home work a week. So this class should have a max of 12 hours, it's a lie... There is no way I could do it if I was working 40 hours a week. I already have a sub standard social life because of school work, if I worked more I would honestly wake up go to school, go to work, do homework, go to sleep. On the weekends it would be wake up do homework, go to sleep.
I absolutely understand the excessive homework. My first java course was insane. They're accelerated too, so 8 weeks = semester, then your next classes start for 8 weeks giving you a full load.
With all my current work projects I took the minimum to still be considered a student. 2 of my electives. Normal times I do 12 credit hours + 40 hrs at work. Network/sysadmin. :spazzout
With all my current work projects I took the minimum to still be considered a student. 2 of my electives. Normal times I do 12 credit hours + 40 hrs at work. Network/sysadmin. :spazzout
Grades are pretty much irrelevant if you have a job already. When you are 30+ years old no one will ask about your GPA because the work experience will make up for whatever grades you got if they weren't that good. No need for a 4.0.
If you want to get into grad school later many (most?) public universities will take you with a 2.7 or a 2.5 or whatever it was.
If you want to get into grad school later many (most?) public universities will take you with a 2.7 or a 2.5 or whatever it was.
Been a network/sysadmin for 10 years in one month. Just turned 31
I Dicked up high school through copious use of various pharmaceuticals, then just didn't get my ass in gear when I tried college as a teenager. I'm doing it now to do it right.
I don't know if it's atonement for fucking up or what. I'm a geek, not a headshrinker. I know I want it, and I know it makes me feel good to know I'm busting my ass for a little piece of paper.
Humans are weird critters.
My best tips so far:
split up your hard stuff. Don't take 3 different languages and calculus all at once.
Take some time off. Walk away for a summer. not having homework once in awhile is damn near orgasmic.
I Dicked up high school through copious use of various pharmaceuticals, then just didn't get my ass in gear when I tried college as a teenager. I'm doing it now to do it right.
I don't know if it's atonement for fucking up or what. I'm a geek, not a headshrinker. I know I want it, and I know it makes me feel good to know I'm busting my ass for a little piece of paper.
Humans are weird critters.
My best tips so far:
split up your hard stuff. Don't take 3 different languages and calculus all at once.
Take some time off. Walk away for a summer. not having homework once in awhile is damn near orgasmic.
Not help so much, I tailor my schedule to what I can handle. Just curious how other working joes handled a case load and a 9-5.
yeah any more than 35 hours a week with 18+ hours of class is painfull, have done it for the past year and i will say i cannt be done soon enough!! the way i deal is trying to take my day a week off work on a day i dont have class and just play games and drink beer all day, no worries, keeps me sane..
I've found that I don't think the right way straight out of the gate with programming, I love it but I'm so used to blurting out a Your username isn't spelled correctly, or you don't have numlock on again, or a hey you've left the loop going on that t1, that following the logic loops causes me severe frustration and LOTS of extra debugging time until I get my mindin the groove. 12 hrs is my max per semester. More than that and I might as well request a barely passing grade, and not actually learn aything.