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Metope:
There's a 3-4ish week Christmas break and a 3 week Spring break as well, plus a million Bank Holidays spread out over the year. My conclusion is that Scotland is lazy.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Tom on 22 May 2011, 14:55 ---How's yr Winter break, mines barely a month but my Summer is roughly 4 months. I've noticed that a number of the Uni's that do that have a summer semester.
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Yeah, my school has a summer semester, but generally you just take 1 or 2 classes at a time for a few weeks each, and it's considered optional (and usually it's if you're a few credits behind)
schimmy:
(Wrote this before MoM replied) It's pretty much the same in England, except we have three year degrees. A friend of mine from high school is at Oxford at the moment - terms are crazy there, he has more days holiday than he has days at home than he does at uni.
I have finished my second year! I have also done my last exam EVER! All of my assesments next year are through my dissertation and essays. This is SO GOOD! However, I do need to do enough reading over the summer to figure out what I want to do my dissertation on, so I can have it approved in september.
nufan:
--- Quote from: snalin on 17 May 2011, 05:05 ---Got my first out of three exams this Friday - discrete maths. It's probably gonna be supah easy (compared to maths from last year where I got a D :c, gotta take that one again before I finish my BA), but I'm still a bit nervous. It's pretty fun to work with, and I've set aside the entire day for tomorrow and Thursday to crank out some exams, so it'll probably be great.
I'm considering changing my BA, though, from Informatics to, well, Informatics, dropping some low level programming (a course about assembly and shell scripts and OSs) in favor of more maths. Probably gonna have 80% of the same courses when I'm finished, but is this a good idea? What do I need most as a prospective programmer, low level operating system knowledge, or more relevant Maths?
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I'd say Maths. When I was researching what degree to take (I wanted to be a website designer) I quickly found that no matter what profession I wanted to choose, general knowledge trumped speciality any time. Hence I chose straight Comp Sci over and Web based degrees.
This theory was pretty much confirmed when in my first week of comp sci we had a talk from a games manufacturer (can't remember exactly which one but it was a pretty major one - they did the Scarface game which I won for asking a question about something or other). They said straight up that they don't take people who do a "Games Design" degree as they prefer students who have a broader knowledge.
Method of Madness:
So they're making the masters take twice as long? What're they changing?
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