CS 3220 – Processor Design – B

CS 3300 – Software Engineering – A

CS 3210 – Operating Systems Design – A

CETL 2000 – TA Prep – Pass (Could only take it as Pass/Fail)

CS 4903 – TA Class – A

Processor Design was a surprise B. I really understood everything and thought I did well on the final. I think the final project is what did me in. We had to completely implement the processor for our ISA on our hardware. I thought we made good progress, but we didn’t fully complete the project. Either way, I’m happy with my grades.

One more semester to go!!

There is an advantage to doing well in your classes. Final exam exemptions!! I was able to exempt BOTH of my finals this semester thanks to A averages in both classes. This turns 2 weeks off into 3 weeks off. So, I’m done! Two more semesters to go and then it’s either grad school or job market.

My Fall semester shapes up as follows:

• CS 3210 – Design Operating Systems
• CS 3220 – Processor Design
• CS 3300 – Intro to Software Engineering
• PHYS 2021 – Solar System
• PHYS 2801 – Solar System Lab

13 hours total. Shouldn’t be too bad. Good luck to everyone on their finals and their fall semesters.

I was hoping to have my test score for CS 3240 to report before the drop day, but it turns out we’re not getting our grade until this weekend. The instructor informed us that if we needed to discuss our grade with him that we could see him during office hours and he would look over our test and homeworks to see where we stand. I’m in no immediate danger of not doing well in the course, I have an A average on the homeworks and I’m only taking 12 hours, so dropping would put be below full time. But it is still nice to know where you stand on the heavily weighted test scores.

On another note, I received my test grade in CS4400.. 84% and also received our project phase I score.. A+. Did that just say A+? I haven’t seen an A+ since middle school. I didn’t know that kind of grade was possible on a project. The instructor said it’s basically a 100%. The reason they give letter grades for the first phase of the project is because two Information Flow or ER diagrams could look the same and still be off by +/- 3 points. So the A+ is a variable grade, but still 100%. I’ll take it!

I’m finally averaging a B in CS 1332. I received 114% on the most recent homework which boosted my grade. And yes, I’m a Junior taking 1332 because 1. I transferred from another school which didn’t offer it and 2. it’s a prerequisite for only one class, I believe. I’m pretty sure a lot of Juniors are in there. My advisor told me I need to take it now because I will be a Senior next semester and the CoC is going to make it hard for Seniors to get into that class because they noticed so many students are putting it off. Well, then make it a prerequisite for more CS classes. This class has a wealth of information about data structures and algorithms which I’ve seen in many of the other classes I’ve taken. Having this class before taking those would’ve really helped me out.

I’m pretty focused on keeping my grades high because I would like to keep my options open in regards to grad school. I work for GTRI and I’ve been told that they could possibly pay for a masters degree if the resources are available and if I can’t take that route, then at least I’ll have the option down the road if my GPA is good enough. There’s also FastTrack. This program is for Georgia Tech students who have a 3.4 GPA and a letter of recommendation from a CoC faculy member. The beauty of this program is if you have these, with other minor criteria, you do NOT have to take the GRE. So that’s definitely something I’ll consider especially if GTRI would pay.