My Schedule for the 1996 Fall Semester

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:30 33-111 Lecture 33-111 Recitation 33-111 Lecture 33-111 Recitation 33-111 Lecture
9:00
9:30 21-260 Lecture 21-260 Lecture 21-260 Lecture
10:00
10:30 80-181 Lecture Work Help Center 80-181 Lecture
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30 21-127 Lecture 21-260 Recitation 21-127 Lecture 99-101 Meeting 21-127 Lecture
1:00
1:30 21-127 Recitation 21-127 Recitation
2:00
2:30 85-100 Lecture 85-100 Lecture 85-100 Lecture
3:00 15-128 Meeting
3:30 85-100 Recitation
4:00

Here is a key to help you to interpret this table:

15-128 is the Computer Science Freshman Immegration course. Rather neat, actually. To my knowledge, no other School in Carnegie Mellon does something similar. In it, we learn valuable information about scheduling, etc. We also hear presentations from the leaders of the various sections of the School of Computer Science. Our most recent speaker was Herb Simon, one of the founders of Computer Science.

21-127 is Introduction to Modern Mathematics. Not very interesting, at all.

21-260 is Differential Equations. Nothing exciting here, either. It is even more difficult when your instructor has a heavy accent. Not only that, but when your TA was in the United States for a whole of 10 days at the start of the course, you know you have an even bigger problem.

33-111 is Physics for Science Students I. Not a bad course, very rigorous, but I found it personally boring for much of the time. Having required lecture and recitations at 8:30 AM is a BAD thing.

80-181 is Language and Thought. I personally have found this discussion based course quite stimulating, and would reccommend it to anyone who has an interest in how we think and speak. This course has led me to consider Linguistics as one of my minors.

85-100 is Cognitive Processes : Theory and Practice. The course discription isn't really true to life because the course was radically changed this year, to include such topics as machine and animal intelligence. It could be a good course for certain people, but I have found that I already knew much of the presented information.

99-101 is Windows Computing Skills Workshop. More information can be found here. A throwaway course for me, (essentially useless for anyone with decent computing experience), though I can see where this course has its place. Unfortunately, that place is not in my schedule.


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