Re:Tell HN: My horror story as a student dealing with my Uni...
by frustrated on Saturday March 28, 2009 @05:15PM
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That makes perfect sense, thanks. There are a few reasons why I posted it to HN:
* I had to pick my battles when I was there and this wasn't one of them. I've emailed this to friends who are current students; hopefully something will come of that.
* I wanted to confirm that this wasn't just a UT CS thing. As I expected, there are a bunch of responses attesting to similar experiences at other places in the comments below.
* I was also curious to see the discussion on what people think would be a good way to run the labs (or at all.)
For anyone who wants to take the lead in trying to get things to change at their univs, I hope this post will serve as a confirmation that you're not alone and you should be able to find many other students to join you in pushing for change.
Get together, schedule a meeting with whoever has the power do put a stamp on whatever draft you can write before the meeting. Make sure there are some admins and the head CS department in the meeting too. I bet it's a nice feeling to write here about the situation, but HN can't do much to help you. If you see the problem - go now - book a meeting room if you have them. If it's that bad, do you have anything to lose?