I'm done!! Got a few more tweeks to put on the website . . . but all things considered . . . well it sucks. I'm ok with that at this point. It's not so bad that I would be embaressed to turn it in . . . and there are some parts of it that are really good (like the image map)
It's not bad . . . it's just not where I really want it to be . . . I'm just out of time.
In any case, two finals to take today, and it's all over. Of course one final is 15 questions long and the prof gave us the key for the test. The other one is a normal test, but the prof gave us the questions, in the order they appear on the test, two weeks ago
Yes, the program is much more focused on production than testing.
BTW, my "major" (I'm actually a general studies major because I've already taken 8 semesters) is informatics/new media. It's a really hot program at IUPUI (Indiana U, Purdue U @ Indianapolis). The program is great; highly demanding, and what you learn can be directly applied to the real world (which I am very pleased about).
To be honest, I've done more work in one 100 level class than I did for several of my 3 and 400 psych & soc classes five years ago. That's the plan though, the dept figures if you can't cut it in the 100 level then you have no business in the program.
What is really funny to me is that the dept has really upped their demands for quality; so you have some people that are at the 400 (and some at the 500, masters program) level, that are turning out crap (it just happens to be 3d crap (maya, and some 3d max)), while the quality standards for incomming students has gone way up (not something I'm upset about, just a bit of an observation).
The department is developing a new line of study in sound (currently there are only two dedicated sound classes), and the best way I can describe it, is to think of developing the next generation THX. And that seems to be the line I want to move in . . . though we will see
edit: I spell worse than a 3rd grader