Just wanted to wish everyone a really great [civilian] new year :)

Went out last night - I think this was the first time I actually enjoyed myself on new years eve. I was at the Syndrome, which quite surprisingly wasn’t packed full - and there was a really great Reggae band playing :)

Things are starting to come together now towards the end of the semester, I hope the exam season goes well…

As to the courses I’m taking:

    Algorithms has been super, Alex is a really good lecturer and the exercises, although time consuming definitely help understanding the material.
    Computer Graphics is probably the single best course I’m taking this semester. The exercises are simply amazing, and showing off a spinning 3d object in opengl, you created yourself is a blast…
    Image Processing also gets high marks - The only downside is that the exercises [for me at least] are incredibly time consuming. On the plus side, the material we’re learning is definitely non-trivial and is immensely interesting. Extra high marks for Yael the TA who actually comes to the lectures and gives, hands-down best TA sessions of anyone this semester.
    DB has some remarkably good TAs, the only gripe I have with the course is the fact they keep publishing illegible exercises. For example the first exercise they gave assumed knowledge of stock market terminology without explaining any of it - guys… This is a CS degree…

    In general it might be a good idea for one of the TAs to write the exercises and the other one to try to solve them - any questions he has to ask the other one need to be clarified in the exercise…

    For example, they gave an exercise in JDBC a couple of weeks ago in which they didn’t specify the string needed to connect to the Oracle server anywhere - ???

    Logic - This course needs a new TA, who actually knows whats going on in the lectures. Up to now the exercises have been completely disjoint in regards to the class material - I have a feeling this has more to do with the TA not communicating with the lecturer than anything else.

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