Ive been a student here for about 8 months, enrolled in the Cyber Security Bachelors program. There…read moreare problems that I feel there are no other ways to get addressed. I have tried official channels. Im not afraid to de-anonymize myself either. To any official there: my initials are JML and my student ID ends in 0421.
Some of your instructors have been complete garbage.
I could go on ratemyprofessor.com and single them out, but I feel that is not nice or appropriate yet, so instead, Im going to bash on the institution a little bit in what I think is a fair way.
The intro to MySQL class: this instructor was a robot that read from a script. He didnt teach, nor do I believe he knew anything about MySQL. There was no mention of tools (mysqlworkbench, terminal commands, phpmyadmin, etc...), there were no labs, no demonstrations, nothing. It was just him reading a script the. whole. time. At one point, I got so fed up that I interrupted him (politely) and pressed a fairly basic question about SELECT statements (it was on topic for what he was discussing at the moment). Yeah I knew the answer, I was basically calling him out on his BS. He was unable to answer it at all, so he just brushed the questions aside and kept reading from his script. I felt bad for the others in that class who arrived with no MySQL experience and left with no MySQL experience or knowledge. To any admin reading this, go watch the video of this guys class. It was a joke. I got an A in that class and didnt learn one damn thing. If anyone learned anything from the way that guy taught, Id be amazed, it was horrible, and I was really looking forward to that class.
The Intro to OS and client/server environments class: this was really a writing class where the instructor pushed end of life windows operating systems and had no linux knowledge. There was no hands on anything, no labs, no quizzes, no intellipath, no Q and A, just literally blather about windows server 2006 and an extremely poorly designed multi session assignment (watch the videos to see what I mean). I did the reading assignments, which had decent material, but the worksheets were nonsensical, and the grading was more on if you follow APA format than had substance. This was all fine, whatever, but the kicker that really sets me off is the assignment that one assignment had explicitly set the requirement of 400 words. My paper had 454 words. Therefore I got a C. I sent in a grade appean, and it came back agreeing with the instructors grading in this matter:
"The student's work was just above the minimum requirement at 454 words (400-600 required)"
This is complete bullshit. If 600 is required, say "600 is required". I did the work, I met the requirements, give me my points. Ended up with an A- in that course but feel robbed.
There have also been two really, really good teachers that stand out and wouldnt be fair not to mention.
Applications of discrete math and stats: Amazing, would take class again even though I got an A. There were quizzes that you could redo any time, there was no writing assignments (which is appropriate for a math class), and he was able to field tricky math problems in real time. Great guy, great attitude.
The intro to computer networking class: Another awesome class. Able to field difficult questions and roll with them. Quizzes, labs, a little writing, and an extremely methodical and knowledgeable instructor. Would take this class again, I felt I missed some of the deeper aspects, got an A. Could have spent 3 more weeks in this class.
-JML
Theres your 600+ words.
