My first day of classes today. This quarter I only have classes two days a week, but then three classes each day. Plus our group meetings and seminar on wednesdays too.
I'm taking graduate classes now (while postponing that compilers' class 'till next fall ...) I'm hoping to have less work than last time. I have Computer Architecture, that will involve a few homeworks and a couple of simulations, Bioinformatics II: Sequence and Structure Analysis, also involving a few homeworks and a project, and Operating Systems, where homeworks and project will be optional(?) but class discussion counts as one third of the grade.
I had excellent teachers last quarter, whereas the TAs were a little lacking. Some were just not very involved, others focused on things that weren't of relevance and yet others seemed frankly just a little bit confused themselves by the course material ...
To note the international flavor of the faculty, two out of the three lecturers I had last quarter were Indian. (This quarter only one of them is! Actually, maybe two, if I manage to audit this extra topics class ...) The third was this all-american jeans-and-sweatshirt, navy-haircut, surfer dude, who had such a nasal accent that I could hardly stand to listen to him at the beginning of the quarter. Fortunately I managed to hang on until his voice started to sound like music to me, because his lectures were really helpful to me.
I believe I have great teachers this quarter again, although I started having doubts as we speeded through some 200 slides during a single bioinformatics lecture this afternoon ...
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