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posted by Jason Young at 9:50 pm
With the return of school comes new gripes, as usual. There are plenty of things to rant about, especially as a student in the College of Engineering at Purdue. The topic that has bugged me the most this year is the use of online homework web sites as a substitute for real human interaction. In an effort to save both time and hassle, classes are increasingly turning to using online homework as a means of measuring a student’s progress and it drives me insane. I’ve used WebAssign and OWL as well as various class specific online homework modules. After dealing with online homework for over a year I’ve come to realize many of the pitfalls that make online homework a broken solution. A lot of these examples are specific to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) classes, so you liberal arts folks can go ahead and run away.
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posted by Jason Young at 4:13 pm
It’s now official–summer is boring. I am so ridiculously un-motivated that it is not good news. Part of the problem is that my summer job is ridiculously overpaying me ($35 for 75 minutes of work? I think I can do that) and the other problem is that I am needing to do some serious coding and I can’t seem to focus on it. Meh. Not only do I have to write a backend that is more fully fledged than everything I have ever done, but I also have to do work that actually matters for my research project and, in the middle of it, learn an entirely new language. I don’t care if Python is great for NASA and for CivIV–it’s a pain in the ass as far as I’m concerned!
posted by Jason Young at 5:16 pm