OK, so uni has started up again. Because I switched out of physics and one of my electives is a visual arts subject, I only have 18 hours per week, as opposed to last semester's 26 hours. Which is good. What is bad, however is what we are learning in those hours.

In the first week of semester, I have had two labs, three hours each (my other labs don't start till next week). And you know what I learn in those labs? Essentially we were shown how to use a computer.

Now, this isn't terribly advanced computing. All we we learnt was file management (ie how to create folders) and FTP (new for many, but really not that difficult). We learnt this in two seperate subjects. I suppose it's fair enough to learn this in my visual arts subject, as some people there don't actually have a computer. But the other subject is an Information Systems subject, which is like a sister-department to computer science. In this lab, we were given such golden tips as:

"This is the 'Windows Explorer' Program. On the left, you can see what's called a 'tree' of the folders on your computer. If you click on a folder, you can see all the files in that folder displayed on the right side of the window."

Come on, seriously. We're doing information systems, you think we've never seen this foreign object you call a computer?

As chance would have it, I'm pretty sure that I'll move out of that Information Systems subject anyways. I originally decided to do it because half the subject was about XML, but discovered today that I already know 90% of that stuff - the other 10% I could probably pick up in 20 minutes or so (yes, they really do go that slow). The other half of the course is management stuff, and we all know how much I love management :s