Comments on: How UOM or any univ for that matter kills creativity

By: selven

selven — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:11:41 +0000

@gavin,

issue is not about ‘understanding’ what is being taught, its about … the massive slaughtering of creativity of students, making em turn into by the books kids without leaving em time to put in practice what they learnt and do something much more ‘what they believe can be made from it’ rather than ‘learn what was taught’.

For example, overloading people with lots of really dumb assignments which are sooo simple at times that it is just considerred as time waste, but one needs to do it to get the degree.

It would have been much more productive to give one really really tough assignment which would require lots of out of the box thinking rather than 10 easy but nagging assignments.. and this is just an example.

+selven

By: Gavin Sathan

Gavin Sathan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:10:21 +0000

Hi all,
I have gone through your post.
Well i was a student at UoM too, there were classes when even i did not understand much, there are a couple of things i would like to share with you though:
It pays to ‘pester’ your lecturer outside class to clarify all your doubts. If you have not understood something during class, make it a point not to leave uni on that day without grasping the concept.
You are entitled to contact hours outside lecture hours to contact your lecturers for any problems….use that efficiently.
Arrange for a couple of group sessions , say once a week to quickly revise on major topics, these work…trust me on that.
One thing i like to say is that you need to work on your own a lot. Do get access to resources or books and read the required chapters, the lecture notes are just about of main concepts, for a thorough understanding of the topic, the recommended text book is a judicious choice!!!

Gavin SATHAN

By: selven

selven — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:45:42 +0000

told ya so

By: Sealife

Sealife — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:01:59 +0000

I cant be bothered to read all the comments but the video was awesome

By: selven

selven — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:36:56 +0000

hahaha @ giga :p amen!

By: giga

giga — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:48:39 +0000

Thanks.. surely i will learn lol, these were not difficult things actually.. VB6 ain’t real programming

By: selven

selven — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:31:30 +0000

:p well good for you :p i hope that when you shall be learning new thing at univ, that you shall have the time to continue thinking of new things to write

I’ll check that gigabyte89 later on :p

By: giga

giga — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:48:06 +0000

I love computing lol.. programming etc. I even made a webbrowser in VB6 and made a stuff known as ESET login viewer for getting ESET user/pass (google gigabyte89 login viewer) & a server patch for eset. LOL.. well hopefully i will not get bombarded with work..

By: selven

selven — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:14:33 +0000

@giga
lol IS is as screwed up as CS.

Actually, its not the nature of the modules which are hard, if you love it, you’ll like it and won’t find it much hard…

the problem is… they tend to overload you with work.. and in the end, you don’t get enough time to play with all that you have learnt.. or trying to learn.

ps. do it only if you love it

By: Yudz

Yudz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:13:54 +0000

there is no need to be scared. also IS is no lighter than CSE, its almost same.