Back to school

I went back to uni for a semester. After one unit into a sixteen unit coursework Masters degree, I'm cutting my losses.

My intentions were:

• to learn how to software dev
• be more comfortable creating software - not just prototype code
• prove to myself that I can learn again

but it turns out that:

• group assignments are more about management
• marks are handed out like lollies
• tutors are egging on about a class leaderboard (cultural thing)
• there's some awkward pronunciation eg Arrays
• all the tutors seem to come from one ethnicity (unlike my ugrad, tutor ethnicity didn't match the lecturer's)

It's good that it:

• is a slower pace than intensive courses, so there's time to practice
• as a part time student I can focus more
• I don't need the marks to apply for a job

Classmates:

• claim they don't know how to program and did ugrad in accounting
• suffer from depression
• demonstrate that they can't program, procrastinate, ask for help at the last moment and buzzword bullshit through presentations
• eg. waterfall method didn't work well because we waited on each other...  no shit, when they did no work

So I'm almost definitely going to be a uni dropout now!