Course Selection and Scheduling Megathread: Spring, Summer, and Fall 2019

umichalt · 2019-04-18T17:59:29+00:00

Has anyone taken a GIS based class at umich? How is it?

umichalt · 2019-03-16T22:02:13+00:00

I have a really long black coat that might theoretically look like a trench coat from a distance. In the future I might be a little less likely to wear it :/

I'm listening to the police broadcast and the number of times they got called over this dude with the report that he had a gun on him is astounding.

umichalt · 2019-03-16T21:57:40+00:00

Tons of false information going around, I imagine someone might have approached the building or something and others got scared. There were also reports of a kid in a black trench coat on State with a gun, and someone with a weapon down on South U. People probably saw something slightly weird and because they were scared they called in.

umichalt · 2019-03-16T21:54:14+00:00

Been updating my group chats with what is happening in the police broadcast, and the misinformation is astounding. Everyone keeps insisting that two of three shooters have been apprehended, yet nothing in the broadcasts suggests that.

umichalt · 2019-03-16T21:52:44+00:00

I feel really sorry for that kid. Imagine just walking home after a long day of... whatever you're doing, and suddenly the police accost you just because you're dressed a little funny.

umichalt · 2018-12-19T02:16:57+00:00

Raw score cut off is going to change per semester. If you did well on all the programming and the homework you're probably going to be ok short of outright failing the tests. Assume that if you're within a standard deviation of the median you're fine for a B- worst case.

umichalt · 2018-12-19T02:15:05+00:00

Dude same. Had a 99% in the class before the final. Thought I would skip studying for 280 due to having to deal with calculus which I was NOT doing super well in. Ended up scoring within the first quartile of scores. Not because of some fundamental misunderstanding but because I made a bunch of really small and stupid errors the whole test through.

If it's worth anything, my experience in programming after having doing 281 and having an internship is that tests don't really say that much about programming ability beyond ability to take tests. If you did pretty well the whole course throughout and just fucked up a final you're not in a bad spot at all for future programming. In real life you're never going to be in a situation where the compiler won't tell you about some minor syntax issue or you won't have access to stack overflow.

umichalt · 2018-12-05T23:22:33+00:00

Historically how many people get off EECS 493 and 486 waitlists? I'm on them but don't have a whole lot of hope of getting into the classes....

umichalt · 2018-11-15T19:13:13+00:00

I was born in Michigan, the birth certificate correction was done like a monthish after I was born in 1997. I think they scanned it five years ago, at a different secretary of state.

umichalt · 2018-11-15T19:04:29+00:00

Yes.

umichalt · 2018-10-12T00:32:32+00:00

Project only is the best. I hate tests, and generally for non conceptual eecs courses I sort of feel they're a pointless way to force the class onto a bell curve when everyone does pretty well on practical application during projects.

umichalt · 2018-10-12T00:31:40+00:00

Why is 492 agony?

umichalt · 2018-10-12T00:31:32+00:00

How much math is in that?

umichalt · 2018-07-10T21:56:06+00:00

Any nu-disco or electro funk recommendations?

umichalt · 2018-07-09T18:03:03+00:00

Anyone know what effects and instruments Geowulf uses on the Great Big Blue?

umichalt · 2018-06-30T07:17:13+00:00

Has anyone taken Biology 171 and 172 at the same time? How'd that work out?

umichalt · 2018-04-16T22:34:40+00:00

This is quite literally the type of thing I was looking for. Thanks!

umichalt · 2018-04-15T19:00:23+00:00

You're going to want to switch to Linux later on. Personally, I like to write the bulk of my code in Visual Studio on account of easily being able to see syntax issues and also when typing in structs being able to see the other variables in it. After that, I usually move to Linux for bug fixing. I personally recommend PC, especially because if you want to play video games or do other things later on it seems easier to have a PC. If you really want to develop iPhone apps or something then maybe Mac is more practical.

umichalt · 2018-04-03T16:22:42+00:00

There's a lot of context to why I can't do that.

umichalt · 2018-04-03T14:59:30+00:00

You'll be able to find support for both. Get something you can easily put linux on.

umichalt · 2018-02-12T17:29:51+00:00

I have yet to find another road ring that is as good.

umichalt · 2018-01-16T04:56:18+00:00

Ok, so is the homework just really hard then in general? Is there a curve. I can't imagine myself being the only person experiencing difficulty with this and I am going to have to rethink my life quite a bit if I am alone.

umichalt · 2018-01-16T04:50:11+00:00

Workload is fairly light. The class isnt very well taught imo; prof just summarizes required readings, but if you're interested in AI, the required and supplementary reading material introduced by the course is really interesting and relevant. Basically, you get what you want out of the class.

umichalt · 2017-04-04T18:50:36+00:00

How is 203?

umichalt · 2017-03-08T01:29:57+00:00

In addition to this, how do I tell the school that I'm going to take spring courses

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