Felocity

There is an odd way with how our campus handles possession of our intellectual property. It varies from department to department, and there is quite a bit of confusion regarding possession after one graduates. I had a lengthy discussion with Dan when driving back from San Jose a few days ago (looking at shiny Apple computers). At least between the computer science and video production majors, there appears to be some disparity over what happens to your work when you leave the school. After reviewing the lab policies and capstone requirements, here is an overall synopsis of what we could determine.

The first and most important thing is that CSUMB revolves around Outcome Based Education. As a direct result, for your final project, you must create something. It varies from a paper to a multimedia presentation, but the end result is still a complete product. The university requests a copy of the completed work to be submitted in your final academic portfolio, and if you have a copy, you get to keep your product. However, this is where things get very confusing.…

I saw an interesting post by Emma on students in programming who don't know programming. Furthermore, she talks about students who are computer science majors who lack any prerequisite knowledge. I don't want to sound elite or anything in saying this, but if you pick a major, you had better at least know something about your fucking field. I see this problem all the time, even at the tutoring center - it's somewhat depressing. You sit in a session for an hour, working with a design student that doesn't know how to resize their image to 72 DPI to put on the Internet. You sit for another 50 minutes with a student who thinks a web page should be done entirely in Macromedia Flash but couldn't tell you a damn thing about motion guides. You sit with a kid on the programming track, and he doesn't know how the return statement in c++ works for functions. I fucking kid you not. This is like being an English major and not knowing what MLA is or being a Math major and not knowing basic Algebra.

So how do these people keep getting passed in prerequisite classes? I don't know about other schools, but here at least, you only fail if you are genuinely trying to fail. Our school is soft and doesn't crack down on students, especially in our HCOM and CST departments. People are being passed out of English classes and are still writing a paper thesis that reads "I think that the author might have meant ________". Kids are taking advanced computing classes and they have a hard time saving their work to a Zip disk so they can take it with them. And yes, they keep getting passed higher up.…

We live in a world with stupid people.

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After an Ethics class half as long as it should have been, and after a pizza-filled lunch backed by Bubble Bobble, and even after having no appointments my first hour at ASAP, I am still trying to grapple with the fact that our University seems to enjoy making additional steps for us to go through (us being the CSUMB Anime Club) in order to throw even a basic event. Last semester, we did something known as Saturday Anime POP, where we showed the first three episodes of Chobits and Hellsing. The event was pretty easy to set up, and had a decent turnout. Thanks to a massive amount of changes to policy, what took only 3 weeks to organize and set up now takes at least 8 weeks. Rights must be submitted for the showing at least two weeks before the event, flyers are due even before that (though you don't know what building / room you can get from the Uni), and this alone turns what was normally a small amount of work into almost more work than it is worth. And I don't even want to get into all the problems that are coming up with Fanime this year. Apparently, although we are all ariving seperately, every driver who will have a CSUMB student in the car may need to be Defensive Driver certified. Yes, that would mean even if you were the only one driving to Santa Clara, if you were going under the club, you could very well need your Def. Driver certification. This means 4-6 hours in a class that happens only once a month. The whole Def. Driver thing isn't actually solidified yet, but I wouldn't be surprised when it happens. It seems that the Uni has over the past 2 years introduced more and more requirements for Student Organizations to hold events. These requirements are getting more and more elaborate. As opposed to looking at the requirements, they work to "simplify the process". In simplifying the process, some other department introduces new requirements, new steps, and then we go right back to where we started. It's a big circle that keeps growing.

In other news, I am debating doing a bit more work on some Wolf's Rain wallpapers to keep me occupied until Ep 6 comes out. If I get them done before the weekend, I will post them up.…