A Disappointing Start
My Internetworking class is a waste of time.
Sure, we've been reviewing since the semester started. It's material that I covered in last semester's Local Area Networks class, and it isn't inherently boring material: I am genuinely interested in how things like the IP addressing system really work.
Until yesterday, I presumed that it was only mind-numbing because it was review. Then I went to my Network Programming class for the second time this semester, and we reviewed threads in Java. It, too, was only a review, as the material came back to me within a few seconds of seeing it on Dr. Bernstein's class notes, but I was anything but bored by the lecture. This leads me to the only possible conclusion: it is the presentation of the material in Internetworking that makes it so unbearable.
Dan's theory is that the overwhelming use of Powerpoint slides in Internetworking makes it dull; I hope this is the case, because that can at least be remedied. I don't want to go through a semester learning about a topic that I enjoy(ed) in a setting that I can't stand. But I will if I have to.
I hope things get better.
January 24, 2003 - 09:31 AM