On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Matthew Yee wrote:
>
> Dr. Amaral,
> With all due respect, I don't think our (the class's) level of maturity is
> any of your concern. We are all adults and we can and should take
> responsibility for our own work.
>
> To imply that we do not already handle our own time mangement already
> frankly, is a bit insulting. We are all coming out of the midterm
> craziness and I would guess that now that they are all over attention
> more of the class's attention will be spent on projects.
No insult was intended. Sorry if you (and others) read my concern like
that.
> Perhaps the reason some of the lab reports are not yet in is because of
> time management decisions.
I am trusting that most of you are making the right decisions.
> In the end those who get them (the labs) done, get them done and those who
> don't suffer the concequences of their actions. Please give us more
> credit than think that we don't know what we're doing.
Droping the deadlines was my best way to give you the credit. Paul and
I know that the coming labs will require a significant amount of effort,
and thus our concern.
On that note, I ask the students that start first in the coming labs to
report all potential problem to Paul and Ashique as soon as you encounter
them. Remember that this is our first use of this material and we might
need time to fix things ourselves.
Cheers,
Nelson
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\ / / Jose Nelson Amaral - amaral@cs.ualberta.ca
) / ( Associate Professor
/ / \ Dept. of Computing Science - University of Alberta
( / ) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E8
\ O / Phone: (780)492-5411 Fax: (780)492-1071
\ / http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~amaral
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