The course is over, and the final exam looms over the horizon of my every thought, like an inescapable eventuality. So it's a good as any to reflect back on CSC236H1F as a whole.
Lectures were fun and easy-enough to follow; perhaps the only CS lectures I didn't mind attending. The tutorial/quiz system was very fair. I had the weekend to familiarize myself with the topic, and then I got to see a similar question to the quiz being worked through. The assignments were posted far-enough from their due dates, and so I had a pretty decent time-frame to work through them. Their level of difficulty (and sometimes the type of questions) were unlike anything seen in lectures or tutorials, but that is usually the case with problem sets. The mid-terms were somewhere between the assignments and the quizzes in terms of difficulty and length. The second mid-term was a little too focused on a single concept, and the two questions were very closely related. It just felt like if you were not good at that one concept, you could forget about getting a good mark on that test (which I did!).
Now, in my head, I understand every concept in this course, and I was on top of my game pretty much for the whole semester. But I certainly feel like my mark doesn't reflect that. So what happened? I honestly don't know. Even though it really doesn't feel like it, this course might end up being my lowest mark so far in university.
There is still hope though. I'm hoping that the final won't be too challenging, and that I can improve my mark by doing good on that.
And that's that. Thanks for reading.
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