ugh. I just realized that its already time to register for fall classes at my university. I just spend the last hour or so trying to figure out what I need to graduate, and as of now I'm signed up for Environmental Economics, Public Finance, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and intro to Econometrics. I'll also use my honors thesis as a "class" for 15 credits total.

Assuming the administration doesn't screw me by not offering my classes, in the spring I'll just need 1 more econ class (tough choice between advanced macro, adv price theory, or another econometrics) and two more political science classes (one about congress and probably something like urban planning) to graduate.

Post your class/work loads, and if you're an economics type advise me on what I should be taking.

If I can go to school this summer, I'm taking;

Customer Service
Photography I
Digital Media Essentials
Principles of Public Speaking

To get easy credits and other nonsense out of the way for the break I'm taking to get a vocational film thing.

If not, I'll probably ditch the HR and COMM class and take Film Sound and Film Production. I probably can't go to school, so, FML

This is what I requested and am hoping I'll get (6 of these, but I requested more cuz some of them are really hard to get):

CIS 262 Automata, Computability and Complexity
BPUB 250 Managerial Economics (freshman class... put it off for 4 years lolol)
MKTG 211 Consumer Behavior
MKTG 212 Marketing Research
MGMT 238 Organizational Behavior
FNCE 250 Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
MKSE 212 Scalable and Cloud Computing
EALC 069 Japanese Pop Culture (lolol)

Nice. I'm taking an editing theory class in the Fall which I'm super pumped for.

Fall:
CMPUT ??? - Independent study course (Computational Geometry)
CMPUT 495 - Honors seminar
CMPUT 301 - Introduction to software engineering
CMPUT 415 - Compiler design
CMPUT 429 - Computer systems and architecture (third-level CPU/ISA design course)
PHIL 120 - Symbolic Logic I (my rebellion against having to take arts credits.)

Winter:
CMPUT 495 - Honors seminar
CMPUT 302 - Introduction to human computer interaction
CMPUT 379 - Operating system concepts
CMPUT 401 - Software process and product management
CMPUT 474 - Formal languages, automata and computability
Undecided.

Workload: the above, plus independent research, plus supervised research, plus lab work, plus tutoring/student mentoring.

Right now:

Physics III (Optics, Modern)
Engineering Circuits

+3 BS do-nothing classes (Energy and the Environment, History of California, Swimming).

Last year of lower div. UC in the fall, here I come. Will pick classes after acceptance notices come out I suppose.

Assuming I don't majorly screw anything up (it wouldn't be the first time) I won't have classes next fall. After this semester I'll have two elective classes which by necessity of scheduling will be management/business classes and one political science class (state and local government) that I have to take to finish my minor because the class I wanted to take is no longer offered and the class I was going to take in its place has not been available because the professor is on sabbatical. I will be taking these online and at a different campus in Tulsa instead of here at the main campus.

Maybe after this summer I'll finally be able to learn some stuff and accomplish things.

graduating in a month, NO MORE REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES

I won't know until September!

My schedule this fall will be the same as it has been for the last three years.

Work 8am to 5pm Monday-Friday

None, I will be working for Microsoft on the Xbox Live team!

Congrats. Get me a job.

Unless you're a cj.

CJ? Right now all I could do is pass your resume along to recruiters, so probably not that useful.

Nice, what kind of work will you be doing?

It's an SDE (software development engineer) position, so a lot of programming. Not sure what exactly I am working on yet.

CJ is Computer Janitor, does not seem that will be your role Emon. Congrats on the sweet gig!

got 2-8 years so no rush. you should be at least lvl 60 by then.

Somehow I'm having trouble picturing Jon`C as a tutor.

Also, you'd better watch out. Computer/human interaction sounds suspiciously artsy.

Emon when are you starting? I'm gonna be at MS this summer!

Edit:

Jon`C is tolerant of people who want to learn and do not want to be deliberately stupid?!?



Artsy!

Does your school have one of those art departments that consists entirely of hipster doofuses and hippies or are you just afraid of your own feelsies Jon?

No, they just don't fit well into my program, I don't have a lot of time to invest into them, and I don't care. I don't need some grad student who made a completely awful life choice to tell me how to read first-wave propaganda.

You totally do tho cus if you don't understand art you won't be able to relate to anyone.

glue is the holds that binds us and art is that glue

Yeah...I don't think it's particularly useful to pay someone to tell me to think about art and literature. Thanks, I think I can do it myself.

And that is?

If it has anything to do with humans, then it's probably pretty arbitrary.

Yeah that's why
a four year art
degree is silly.

I dunno, I think it can be valuable to hear what other people have thought about art and literature, whether now or historically. In the least, I find it interesting personally.

One of the things I wish I could have done in college is take at least a few literature classes, since I was really into it in high school and since I got into college have done nearly nothing w/ regards to liberal arts

Yeah but you can find out what other people have thought or currently think about art without much difficulty on your own. Also, like spook said...an entire degree? Really? Unless you have a very specific plan which requires being an absolute expert...what's the point?

I probably wouldn't pursue an art or literature degree but for myself, at least, I think if I wanted to immerse myself in the subject I would get more out of it by taking a few classes than by looking into it on my own time, for a variety of reasons (structure, self-discipline, exposure and opportunities to personally meet those in the field or attend relevant events, direct involvement in relevant community, etc)

Yeah Pommy keep in mind if it doesn't use math it's not real knowledge.

Speaking of math I just wanted to quote something I saw someone comment on a friends facebook status today.

"i say whoever invented math is a complete and utter idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sure it's real knowledge. It's just (to me) not the kind of knowledge that you need to go to school to get unless you're going all the way.

I propose that it really depends on what it is. If you are trying to learn a little bit about how to do something in the arts, classes are great. For example, I am getting this AAS Film degree because I will get the opportunity to work on other people's projects and have access to resources I wouldn't otherwise have.

I am required to take one film crit class. That's great, because I will, again, see lots of films I wouldn't have otherwise seen.

But I have absolutely no desire to study films for four years, because I want to make my own projects, not study other people's. I was going to get a four year film degree so that I could do a vocational film program and still have a four year degree, but I have found some other sources of funding, so I'm not doing that anymore. Because I don't want to teach upper division academic film classes.

Intro classes to most mediums/disciplines are great because you are forced to see works that you likely wouldn't otherwise. Obviously, there are some classes where you are going to see the same 50 paintings that you have always seen, and those are probably not quite the value of some other courses.

Classes I'm taking in the Summer:
Linear Algebra

Classes I'm taking in the Fall:
Set Theory and Math Logic
Data Structures and Algorithms I
Database Systems

the singer for my band actually has a batchelors degree in fine arts. he was planning on going for his masters and trying to land a teaching job, but he decided to join the army and go into PsyOps first. lol.

ARC 341 - build tech II: masonry & concrete
ARC 351 - design studio III: context
ARC 361 -structures I: statics & steel
ARC 381 - environmental design I: site planning

16 credit hours; more contact and outside study hours than it is comfortable for me to contemplate... >_<

Students with this combination of classes are literally forbidden to take any additional classes that semester; the online registrar forces you to stop once you have these four classes selected. It doesn't do that with any other combination of classes at this university.
I'm an optimist for the most part, but jeeze that doesn't sound friendly.

F*** Yeah.

I got my degree last May. I'm working full time now. Ask again in a year or so when I decide to start work on a Masters degree.

Work hours are the same. Hopefully, after working there for a year, I'll get into a masters program that they will pay for!