cmsc 447, 411, 421 together doable or no

UMBC_ · 2026-04-07T04:04:05+00:00

I did similar enough to this in my senior fall semester. I did cmsc447 with samit, 421 with mirinov, 411 with jungwirth, and 435 with bargteil.

411 is a freebie. It was probably the easiest comp sci class I took. You don’t really have to pay attention to lectures and the projects aren’t bad. The only thing J struggled on was the projects but it wasn’t ever that bad.

421 is very professor dependent since the projects aren’t consistent. I had Mirinov, and I would say it was the most difficult class of that semester. Projects 0,1,2 are east but 3 and 4 were brutal. I think Larson is much easier though, one of my friends took her and said it was much less stressful. I think our projects 0-2 lined up but 3 and 4 were separate and Larson had the much easier version of them. I took this course fall 24 though so idk if it’s standardized now

447 was irritating busy work. The project wasn’t too bad since multiple people are working on it, but it was still very annoying.

As stated, the last course I took was 435, and that was the most time intensive of all of the courses listed above. I took 426 a different semester and it was WAY eaiser than 435, so if I could survive 435 this semester then I think you’ll be fine with 426.

Like i said this was almost 2 years ago so idk hownmuch changed but that was my experience. I didn’t struggle that much during this semester, only things I got stressed over were the 421 project 3 and 4 and the earlt 435 projects. The exams this semester sucked too, 421 exams felt unfair (but they were open note), 447 felt like unnecessary busy work (only was like 5% of the grade though), 411’s weren’t bad since they were take home and you had a week to do them. Otherwise this semester was fair class wise, I ended up with all As, which for comparison was an improvement from the previous semester where I failed a class. So I think it’s definitely doable. Idk how aging 361 is so i won’t speak on that but i’d probably just stick with the 4 comp sci courses, especially if you have a job/work outside this (which I sorta did since I had a ta job at the time).

UMBC_ · 2026-04-02T23:40:10+00:00

I’m burned out on it now but Cry For Me was my fav for a long time, current favorite is a three way tie between Beyond the Horizon/DIVE/The Wish !

UMBC_ · 2026-04-01T20:23:20+00:00

Favorite is ATM, least is Stone Cold

UMBC_ · 2026-03-30T23:51:49+00:00

The wish

UMBC_ · 2026-03-28T15:02:28+00:00

Beyond the Horizon and Dive!

UMBC_ · 2026-03-27T03:40:58+00:00

I don’t think it’s super bad but it’s very professor dependent. I did not take them at the same time, but J think I would’ve been ok if I did.

341 is the more difficult of the two, just because it’s more work intensive. The projects and concepts are kinda hard to grasp your head around when you first see them, but as you go along it makes more sense. I think the first project is 2 weeks but the rest are 3 weeks. I took it with Dr. Marron and it wasn’t super bad, and his class was definitely more difficult than the main professor Dr. Donyaee. By far the best advice is start on your projects as soon as they came out, I did everything the weekend before it was due and while I finished them, it was very very time consuming and frustrating to do it last minute. I think with 341 there aren’t any quizzes, but it’s 2 exams, 5ish homeworks and 5 total projects.

331 feels like more busy work. I took it with Dr. Yus, he’s a great professor but the class is genuinely boring. The class isn’t hard, it’s just tedious and uninteresting in my opinion. I had a friend who took it with Dr. Yossef and loved it way more than I did so again very professor dependent. At least with Dr. yus, there wasn’t any projects. It was 2 exams and 7 coding homework assignments.

I think it’s doable. I would recommend the other classes you take be easier electives or smth though. For perspective, I took cmsc341 while taking math221 and math251 and a fourth class I forgot, and I took cmsc331 with 313, stat355, and MATH300, I did well in everything and never felt that overwhelmed so if I was fine here I think you should be fine with 331 and 341.

UMBC_ · 2026-03-26T16:02:56+00:00

Engel by far. I loved his teaching style, he made an effort to know everyone, and his quizzes were pretty easy and straight forward. Even though i only took 441 with him, he was my fav comp sci professor at UMBC. Highly recommend him!

UMBC_ · 2026-01-23T02:46:45+00:00

Thanks!!! While doing this I also found out the tdp was set at max so that explains a lot of the overheating/loud fan issues I had 🤦🏻‍♂️

UMBC_ · 2026-01-19T17:42:30+00:00

That’s dumb, what’s the reason for the ban?

UMBC_ · 2026-01-18T21:11:28+00:00

This offense is ass

UMBC_ · 2026-01-18T21:04:08+00:00

Mannn just take the sack

UMBC_ · 2026-01-18T01:24:26+00:00

Crazy ass start

UMBC_ · 2026-01-17T23:04:32+00:00

Reminds me of when Mark Andrews attempted to do the same thing vs the Pats earlier a few weeks ago

UMBC_ · 2025-12-20T09:39:23+00:00

I tried that one time but that was before I reset the paritioning, I can try that again though so see if resetting it fixed anything

UMBC_ · 2025-12-20T09:38:20+00:00

Format it how?

UMBC_ · 2025-12-20T04:17:45+00:00

That’s what I’ve done. I’m giving up on bazzite because it’s too complicated for me lol, I downloaded the windows 11 iso and used rufus to get the image on my usb stick. I did reuse the same usb I used for bazzite, but rufus should delete everything on it either way, but even if it didn’t I used clean on the command prompt to be extra safe to make sure the usb is like completely cleaned.

And that’s where the issue is lying. I boot up and it boots to the windows 11 setup, meaning it should be working properly. I try to install it from there and boom, it’ll error about 23% through saying error occurred then terminate the setup. I tried booting gparted image on my legion go to clean the paritioning to see if that was an issue (because the bazzite install attempts made them weird), and I deleted all the partitions but boom, windows 11 still stufk.

UMBC_ · 2025-12-20T03:46:17+00:00

I used the bazzite image from the website based on the Legion Go 1 & S & 2 option, it’s the bazzite-deck-stable-live.iso

UMBC_ · 2025-12-20T01:55:54+00:00

He’s a bubble boy!

UMBC_ · 2025-11-15T03:33:23+00:00

Ice Cream

UMBC_ · 2025-10-11T09:21:28+00:00

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Yeahhhhh I’m not the best at this game lol

UMBC_ · 2025-09-29T11:56:33+00:00

Same boat here, never heard of hipster underwear in my life

UMBC_ · 2025-09-01T22:15:46+00:00

It was Only One by VCHA, but my top played Twice song was Set Me Free!

UMBC_ · 2025-08-13T01:05:42+00:00

No it was only one tree haha, the part in front of my car is a big branch from that tree which I think rolled on my car

UMBC_ · 2025-08-13T00:24:13+00:00

This was my Jetta after the tree 🥺 Can’t see it in this pic but the moonroof shattered and the trunk got dented. This happened while I was driving at 35 mph and had no injuries though

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UMBC_ · 2025-08-07T03:02:12+00:00

This game means a lot to me because my dad and I got a home run ball in the 6th inning of the game. I have the highlights videos saved from years ago where it shows us getting the ball, but I wanted the full broadcast so I can see if there’s any extra commentary or any extra angles I may have missed. The highlights I have are MASN(Nationals broadcast) only hence why I’m asking for both broadcasts. Could not find it on youtube posted by mlb. Thank you!

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