4.6

As the semester winds down it shifts into what I refer to as "hell month." This is the period of the final rush when those of us wonderful procrastinators must break our backs and sacrifice all the free time of our social life and sleep schedules to complete the projects that have piled upon us in addition to the projects that are being assigned and required at the end of the month.

My semester is divided amongst four classes, this one, ASP.Net, and 4790 Database which comprise the final steps of my major and I am enjoying the challenge they represent and the knowledge I am gaining from them.

The fourth class is BUAD 4980, Business Policy, the last class of my minor under the instruction of Dr. Myopi. To all readers who are on the business path I urge you to take anyone other than Dr. Myopi. Dr. Myopi is one of those instructors that go against everything I've come to love as an INFS major. In a casual explanation I have created, he is "out of touch with reality." He is completely opposed to the use of technology in the class room and it shows. His lectures are completely disjointed and unorganized. There is a required text book, but he rarely follows it. Instead he seems to be going off his notes using an outdated book, and another problem then arises as his notes lack the detail needed for a student to learn or more importantly use the information for the papers we are required to write.

And speaking of papers,

Dr. Myopi is clearly one of those professors who have no problem assigning work to his students without first trying it out him. As a for instance we are required to write papers, but unlike most professors when they assign papers his follow a very strict outline that offers really no room for creativity or independent thought on the side of the student who is to be writing this paper. The paper must include a predefined concept portion which he defines which input must be included. The concept portion is nothing more than book definitions and in the case this last paper took up six pages of my paper. Oh yes, he also has the gall to say in the guidelines for these reports that "a report is supposed be about five pages long." Upon the completion of my last report, I had twelve individual pages, now I may be stepping on some toes but I firmly believe that twelve is not "about five."

Cheers,
Eric Summers