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[pebkac]

So as I posted before, I'm taking Desrosiers for CS 1412. He's a dick.

Each week in lab we have a quiz. And the questions are usually either based on sheer memorization and usually pretty stupid. Last time in lab, the question was to write a program in PEN AND PAPER to use a SortedList (a generic class in C#) to do some stuff. No access to the book or MSDN either. He didn't cover it in lecture, it isn't in the assigned reading, but it was in a set of code samples he gave us (among 10 other samples). When the TA passed the quiz around, I saw a look of puzzlement amongst my fellow students. Apparently, I wasn't the only one who had no clue what to do here. In fact, literally half the lab cheated and looked things up on MSDN while the TA wasn't looking. I didn't, but I don't really blame the students that did.

Each week, the quiz is something more ridiculous than the one before it. And every time the quiz grades come back terrible, he blames us and tells us we need to read more.

Does anyone have any advice for me here? I could talk to Desrosiers, but I honestly don't know that it would do any good. Has anyone had much luck going over their professor's head and talking to the dept chair or anything of that nature?

[koreanp1e]

I'm sorry. I graduated from Tech and now pursuing grad study else where. Although tech has some good professors, from my personal experience, there are better educational experiences one can have by transferring out of tech and going to other places. I am glad I got out. Simply because I am learning something more exciting than regurgitating materials without clear understanding of first principles, which lots of department at tech do in their academic curricula.

if you aren't happy with what I said, deal with it.
don't weagle off 'ye who don't spak engrish need to shut your hole' card at me.

[impala454]

I'm sorry. I graduated from Tech and now pursuing grad study else where. Although tech has some good professors, from my personal experience, there are better educational experiences one can have by transferring out of tech and going to other places. I am glad I got out. Simply because I am learning something more exciting than regurgitating materials without clear understanding of first principles, which lots of department at tech do in their academic curricula.

if you aren't happy with what I said, deal with it.
don't weagle off 'ye who don't spak engrish need to shut your hole' card at me.

How about you don't get your panties in a wad when you get razzed after dissing Texas Tech on a fucking Texas Tech message board full of Texas Tech students & graduates. mmmk?

[koreanp1e]

How about you don't get your panties in a wad when you get razzed after dissing Texas Tech on a fucking Texas Tech message board full of Texas Tech students & graduates. mmmk?

I can say whatever I want to say about my former school since I got my degree there.
If my honesty hurts you so much, you need to grow up.

[impala454]

I can say whatever I want to say about my former school since I got my degree there.

Sure you can say whatever you want and be a dickwad. I didn't say you couldn't. I told you don't get all butt hurt when people take offense and call you out on it when posting it to a basically all Texas Tech message board. We were discussing one professor in one department. You not liking Texas Tech doesn't have shit to do with us discussing Dr. Desrosiers from the CS department.

If my honesty hurts you so much, you need to grow up.

You come onto a message board full of Texas Tech fans, grads, etc, and talk shit about the school and education, and I'm the one that needs to grow up? I'm not hurt at all but what you said, I'm just calling you out on it because it's wrong. It's not our fault you weren't compelled to pay attention in class or needed someone to hold your hand for you to learn anything. I hope at whatever dream school you're at now (which one is that by the way?) you found some professors who will nurture you and really take you step by step through the material so you can learn something.

If you feel the need to flush your Texas Tech education down the toilet, that's fine by me, it just shows you don't know a good value when you see one. My Texas Tech education has done very well for me. I'm four years out of school and just passed the 70k mark. Pretty damned good IMHO coming from a school without a "real" education.