5 years ago Featured

On top of studying from home, struggling with motivation, working on mandatory hand ins, looking for an internship and juggling work and school (so I can pay my rent and bills), we now have an extra class that requires hand ins and does not require any software engineering knowledge we have been taught during the past semesters.

5 years ago Featured

It's hard to find the reasoning for having an extra period of innovation week. Most of the stuff we are doing right now seems very similar to what we did the first time. The timing of this is extra bad, I wish it was done in October or something when we did not have as much responsibility. Right now I am working on my hand-ins 14h a day including weekends. It is hard to keep up with this semester as we have the responsibility of finding an internship as well, which is not very easy to do in these corona times. Adding the extra innovation period is bringing things over the top for me as I am already spread thin and I don't know how long I can keep up. The entire semester seems badly planned and this is just too much.

I'm unable to keep up with 4 hand-in assignments that overlap. In the same time work on semester project, look for an internship and work part-time job, so that I can pay my rent and bills. INO is completely unnecessary load at that point. That course should have been moved earlier in the semester.

We have so many assignments with deadline in start of December. In AND we have to create a whole app which take alot of time. I'm also having meeting companies for internship besides all assignments and classes. This innovation project should have been done in the start of this semester, not now when we are working on so many other things.

Currently each day is: lectures (0820-1150) (4hrs) Homework/exercises 12-15 from the lectures (3 hrs) Assignment 15-18 android (3hrs) 19-20 other assignment (1-2 hrs) (12 hours of school every day, every week since autumn break) Most weekends I spend the entire Sunday on backtracking exercises that I didn't have time for during normal days plus assignments. Now. Ino expect 27.5 * 5 / 3 = 45.89 hours. There is two weeks to last deadline. That's 22 hours a week I need to find. So if I had to do this in work days, I would add approx 4.5 hours to my 12 hours work day. 16.5 hours a day currently. I can already now say, that iam not able to do this. The question is. What course do I have to NOT finish exercises/handin or meet deadlines. Because with the added workload, that is what's going to happen. This ino should have been done in one stretch in the beginning of the semester. Or even better, be first semester as it requires zero software Engineering skills to complete.

I spend a lot of time on the homework/hand-ins, but there is still not enough time. And so there is barely any time left to search for an internship or focus and make some progress on SEP.

There is too much homework/studying than its reasonable. I spend most of my time studying/doing homeworks and it still feels like its not enough

It's hard to keep up with studies. It's hard to manage my time schedule as to I need more time to organize meetings and work in groups to accomplish the numerous hand-ins. I don't have a normal sleep schedule anymore because in order to pass and participate at every class/meeting I need to sleep for 4-5 hours a day.