Wednesday, 8 October 2003

Modivation? Fear works best.

I have been trying to work on my SEG 4100 assignment now for about an hour and I have not written anything. I can't seem to actually modivate myself to get it done. Yesterday I wasn't having a problem because it was due today at noon, it has since been pushed back to Friday. I can't understand why I can't get things done early. Why? *sigh* Maybe because the course just seems like a big pile of crap.

The prof has just sent out an email (through WebCT, but let's not go there right now), telling us to buy the book before it gets sent back. It seems that almost no one has bought the book yet. Well, considering that he tries to go through about 150 ppt slides / 3 hour lecture, I am not going to go out and buy a 100 $ book. I have more than enough to read as it is. My brain is overloaded with this crap, and frankly I don't want to add any more anyways. The whole course seems outdated because he is baseing everything on the waterfall method. He keeps on talking about liklyhood of failure etc. And I am sure with most / many sw projects now, if you don't show progress, only documentation, you have a bigger chance of getting canceled. I'm not sure if I am all for XP, but at the very least do iteritve developement, seesh.
Listening to: Robbie Williams - Me And My Shadow


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  1. peter8 October 2003 at 20:51

    Yeah, I don't think I'm going to buy the book either.
    Mostly just because there is ALOT of info in his slides and I'll probably have a hard enough time cramming all that into my head without needing to worry about the book.
    Plus it's not like he's actually mentioned the book in class or anything..
    I'm willing to that the (I hope!) ~10% hit on my mark if he does decide to test on material from the text...

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  2. peter8 October 2003 at 20:52

    grr.. can't type..
    I'm willing to take the ~10% hit... (is what that should have said...)

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  3. Liz9 October 2003 at 06:35

    AAAHH!! Don't join the Robbie Williams cult! Europe completely adores him (according to the radio people, not my co-worker who now goes screaming from the room) and we started counting "number of RW songs on the radio per day" but gave up because we lost track.... also, the stuff is so damn catchy that it's a struggle not to get sucked in - Help! Tragic. Of course, numbing your brain that way seems a good way to deal with your fun course... public service or perhaps a global conspiracy??...hmmm.

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  4. Jim9 October 2003 at 16:29

    hahaha... I love Robbie Williams stuff. But the CD that I bought was called "Swing while you're winning" or something like that. It has all kinds of old songs (one remake that's 1/2 robbie and 1/2 ol' blue eyes). It's pretty good.
    I try and stay away from his pop stuff... too poppy, too catchy, no "meat". Mmmm, meat...
    Where was I? Ah well...

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