why i wish i took my dictaphone to uni

[daf]

earlier today in my software engineering lecture

Dr. Peter Oriogun: "If you take what I say in the lecture as being correct, you will fail the exam."


should i be worried?

Comments

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

To be fair, there really is no relationship at all between computer science as it is taught in college and actual software engineering as it is practiced in the real world...

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

that's true, but i suspect that as this module is on the development of software from an organisational perspective [ie vague], it will mirror much more closely the "real world"

not that i'll pass it if the lecturer's anything to be believed

sounds like very good advice.

[aliasrob.livejournal.com]

this sounds like unusually good advice at university level. In software engineering, you should never take someone elses work as being true, until you have tested it yourself. And you will nearly always be working from someone elses notes - assuming you're lucky enough to be coming after someone who actually MADE notes.

Re: sounds like very good advice.

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

you are right, but i don't think he was being clever.

so unfamiliar was he with the lecture material, he had to check the number of powerpoint slides each lecture had so as to work out how long he could afford to spend per slide.

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

i thought it was something to do with importing labour from southern africa and then keeping them locked in an unhappy job and paying them pittance for their hard work until they eventually stop caring about their work, pack their bags and up and leave back to the lands from which they came...

sorry, you having bye-bye drinks/party?