I went back to another school for MIS and did C+, wasn’t my favorite. College was much easier with the first degree. Too much other stuff going on when you have a job, family and more. You also fall out of test taking flow.
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They do have that and it’s called MIS in the business school and it was the best decision I ever made moving from CompE to MIS.Fascinating to see Comp Sci drops. The real issue isn't programming. It's Systems Architecture.
Programming is now essentially a commodity, from which AI is making enormous strides. As a Comp Sci graduate with 40+ years of experience, I wouldn't recommend any student major in 'programming' unless it had direct correlation to AI/ML or 'security' programming. Otherwise you'll find yourself as a 'temp' the rest of your life. Oddly enough, as a perfectionist, I see crap everywhere. Certainly NOT because of the programmers, but rather the lack of solid 'systems' oriented education. Here's a great example: is there any education teaching the students how long a technology will stand the test of time? Yes, there still are needs for Cobol (sarcasm), but had you known Cobol (Fortran, Pascal, etc) would reach end of life only 10 years after your degree, would you still have paid what you did to learn it? Much like an 'investment', they should teach you to research the company ot understand the longevity of a technology; things like standards committees, finances, demand, market saturation, security, required infrastructure, etc, before choosing a foundation to base your life on.
If this helps one student to make a more sound decision, I'll be very happy.
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I work on much more diverse items in the workplace (especially in my line of work in particular) than any of my CompSci or CompE friends. They get a higher salary but I get larger bonuses which even it out. I get to travel, honed skills outside of technology, and the problems are just much more interesting IMO.
One of my final exams sophomore year I misread the exam schedule as Tuesday instead of Thursday. Sat down to a test on some history I never encountered before when I was expecting statistics. I got up immediately, handed it in and left. Always wondered what the TAs thought.
Anyone ever stress out about getting like a 50% on a test only to find out it curved into a B or something? I remember that on a few 100 level courses. Isn't law school graded on a forced curve almost always? Considering you are essentially prepping for the bar how much do actual grades matter assuming you aren't failing?
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Do you happen to know if this is something required by Workday? I work at another university (Maryland) and we just switched to Workday.
Enterprise software. We use it at work for payroll, PTO, performance reviews, etc. sounds like ISU uses it for their course registration (and I’m assuming lots of other functions).
I found studying for grad school harder. I was working full time, but didn’t have a family, and I’d been out of undergrad for 10 years. Took me a while to ramp up.
It's been over 25 years for me so the numbering system looks different. I dropped business calc and took it over the summer at DMACC and dropped a world religons class I was taking to fill a diversity requirement. After the 2nd exam I bet half the class dropped that religon class. If I could so it over I would have knocked out more GenEd classes at DMACC as the smaller class sizes and having an instructor that actually gave a damn about teaching the subject.
Does ISU still allow you to "audit" a course mid semester where you can change certain courses to a pass/fail grade that you still get the credit but doesn't count towards GPA? When you do that though it won't count towards whatever elective diversity or whatever bucket you were taking it for. I toke a political science class and I knew I could get a passing grade but was worried it may be a D so I changed it to pass/fail after a bad exam. Then I finished out the semester getting mostly B grades after that and I was not even giving the class my full attention once I knew I just needed to do enough to pass it so I found that a bit ironic and second guessed why I changed it.
Does ISU still allow you to "audit" a course mid semester where you can change certain courses to a pass/fail grade that you still get the credit but doesn't count towards GPA? When you do that though it won't count towards whatever elective diversity or whatever bucket you were taking it for. I toke a political science class and I knew I could get a passing grade but was worried it may be a D so I changed it to pass/fail after a bad exam. Then I finished out the semester getting mostly B grades after that and I was not even giving the class my full attention once I knew I just needed to do enough to pass it so I found that a bit ironic and second guessed why I changed it.
Took an organic chemistry class second year. Full of pre-med and pre-vet students. Dr Wager was the professor. 1973-74 or thereabouts. He was a young guy thinking you guys are not so smart and I’ll show you. Midterm median score was 37. Think I had low 40’s and ended the course with a B. Around the same time took Quantitative Analysis in Chem building. Ceiling fell in over break so whatever you had for midterm grade you could take as your grade. Hated that class but swear I had nothing to do with the ceiling
Mention of O Chem reminded me of what happened to a friend of mine during undergrad.
She shows up for the O Chem final but there’s no one in the scheduled lecture hall location. She figures maybe she was confused so went over to the location for regular lectures to see if that’s where the exam was. Nope, that hall was empty too.
So she makes her way over to the Chemistry building to see if they know. She asks the admin “where is the O Chem final?”
The admin looks at her and says “it was last night.”
My friend read the finals schedule wrong. In those days your final time was determined by when you had regular lecture. Except for big classes like calc, physics, O Chem, which had separate, special times.
Spoiler alert: she got to retake O Chem.
No, I don't know for sure. It just popped up as we're making that transition so I'm assuming it came with Workday Student.
ISU moved enterprise type things (the stuff you mentioned) a few years ago. The current "fun" is called Workday Student, where they are bringing the academic management into the same software suite.
I fortunately don't have to deal with it day-to-day, so I can avoid most of the hassles. Most complaints I hear are generally summarized as "I don't like change".
