Re: Is no news good news?

From: Jose Nelson Amaral (amaral@cs.ualberta.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 08:51:46 MST


In addition. Ashique told me that he only got half of the
lab #3 reports so far. This does not sound really good.

I start to wonder if you have the maturity to handle
your own time management, or if we still need the
structure of firm deadlines in a third year college course...

                Cheers,

                                Nelson

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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Paul Berube wrote:

>
>
> I just realized that it has been an awfully long time since I've seen
> anything here about problems etc...
>
> My hope is that you are all working on the labs and everything is going
> along smoothly... However, as a student myself I fear that perhaps you may
> be procrastinating, and putting off working on the labs (especially now
> that they are not actually due until the last day of class). Or maybe it
> is just midterm season...
>
> Anyway, I'd just like to caution you NOT to procrastinate on the labs.
> For one thing, you won't be able to get it all done in the last week. For
> another, if you all leave it 'till later, and there are problems, I may
> have difficulty responding to all your concerns in a timely manner, which
> means that you just won't finish, since there can't possibly be any more
> extensions. Also, I'm sure Ashique would like it if you did not leave him
> all the marking until the last week when he wants to study for finaly :).
>
>
> So, on that note, I'll leave you to your studies... Good Luck :)
>
>
>
> "Oh, there it is...
> ...Then what the heck was that other piece of code we changed?"
>



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